“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. — The repetition of 7:15 hammers home the contradiction: the self's willed good is consistently replaced by unwilled evil; the habitual action (προσσάσσω, prassō, "keep doing") is the opposite of intention. This is the lived chaos of the person ἄνομος (anomos, "lawless") in one sense, yet obsessed with the law—aware of obligation but incapable of fulfillment.
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