The Hinge  ¹³ Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

A  ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal (“flesh”), sold under sin.

B  ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

C  ¹⁷ But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

B’  ¹⁸ 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. ¹⁹ For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

C’  ²⁰ Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

B’   ²¹ I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. ²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. ²³ 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. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

D   [ ²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! ]

A’  So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

The Hinge: The Sin Nature Produces Death (“in me”, the one who is sold under sin)

A:  The Law of God is Spiritual. But the Sinner is Sold Under Sin.

B   The sinner does the things they don’t want to do.

C   The indwelling sin.

B’  The sinner doesn’t know how to get out of doing sin.

C’  The indwelling sin.

B’  The inner desire to want to do good vs. the wretched state the sinner is in.

D [ The Ultimate Solution! 7:25a – Jesus Christ our Lord, the Only Solution: Thanks Be To God! ]

A’:  The Sinner’s Plight of Attempting to Serve the Law of God, but a Slave to the Law of Sin.