This being so, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.
For, where there is willingness, a man's gift is valued by its comparison with what he has, and not with what he has not.