The War Within

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I don’t understand my own behavior — I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!

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Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.

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But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.

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For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me — that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!

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For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!

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But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.

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So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!

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For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;

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but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.

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What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?

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Thanks be to God [, he will]! — through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.”

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