Oops. I forgot the equally critical part, from 21-26:
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[b] a slave to the law of sin.
Been there, done that.
Matter of fact, still there way too many times.
Some people think that chapter 7 describes Paul before he was saved, but I disagree.
A saved person isn’t going to be that tormented over sin. Chapter 8 is the reassurance that we are not condemned even when we feel like it.
Just my opinion.