I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
I find then a law, х ton (G3588) nomon (G3551)] - rather, 'this law,'
That, when I would do good, evil is present with me. The conflict here graphically described, between a self that 'desires' to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate, because the description given of this "desire to do good," in the verse immediately following, is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.