and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.