For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do....For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Kwa maana najua ya kuwa ndani yangu, yaani, ndani ya mwili wangu, halikai neno jema; kwa kuwa kutaka nataka, bali kutenda lililo jema sipati. Kwa maana lile jema nilipendalo, silitendi; bali lile baya nisilolipenda ndilo nilitendalo .Kwa maana naifurahia sheria ya Mungu kwa utu wa ndani; lakini katika viungo vyangu naona sheria iliyo mbali, inapiga vita na ile sheria ya akili zangu, na kunifanya mateka ya ile sheria ya dhambi iliyo katika viungo vyangu.