(12) For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but (a) [how] to perform that which is good I find not.
(12) This vice, or sin, or law of sin, wholly possesses those men who are not regenerated, and hinders them or holds those back who are regenerated.
(a) This indeed is appropriate to the man whom the grace of God has made a new man: for where the Spirit is not, how can there be any strife there?