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I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

And if I do not want to do the hated things I do, that means I agree that the law is good.

But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

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

Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent).

But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.

And if my behavior is not in line with my desire, my conscience still confirms the excellence of the law.

Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.