“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. — The wretched I confronts the rupture of self: θέλω (thelō, "I want to") and πράσσω (prassō, "I do") are split. The self wills the good but enacts evil; this is the existential condition of the person under law without Spirit. The internal division is radical: what the mind approves the body refuses. Paul's language captures the lived experience of moral impotence.
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