The Great Debate

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to 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. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. Romans 7:14-25

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There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1


Normally when I post about scripture, I will just copy and paste it from Bible Gateway, but for some reason today I felt the need to type them out, to really write as Paul would have been writing. To remind myself that as he wrote this, he was not the picture of perfection I sometimes get, but he was a sinner struggling to find God's grace in the midst of his sin. Thankfully, he wrote Romans 8:1, to let us know that he not only found God's grace, but that same grace is available to us.