“If then I do that which I would not, 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. — Even in transgression, the "I" internally assents (συνφημί, symphēmi, "concur with") that the νόμος (nomos, "law") is καλός (kalos, "good"). This is Paul's argument: the law's goodness is not questioned; the problem is the self's servitude to sin prevents obedience even when the mind agrees with the law's righteousness.
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