The weeks passage

Romans 7:14-25 (New International Version)

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Lets look at this: Paul is describing the persistent nature of sin, that it is sinful nature and sin living within someone that causes them to sin although in their heart and mind they know what is good and want to do good. He says how this internal struggle causes confusion and tension (7:15). Paul is not trying to escape the responsibility of sinning but is telling of the great control sin can have over peoples life (7:17). Paul also describes his own fallen nature (7:18). He does love God's law and wants to live by it, wants to fulfill every part of it and in his heart and mind this is how he wants to be. (7:22). It is another law that causes a person to act in the ways he wishes not to, the law of sin, the law that has a strong hold over his life. The body of death is the body of sin, for sin causes death, an unrescued sinner is dead whilst alive, whilst a forgiven one can be alive after death, Paul questions who will save him from this body of death and then gives the answer, Jesus Christ (7:24-25)

A related reading can be found here http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gal%205:16-26;&version=31;

As ever I copy/pasted the passage from www.biblegateway.com and I referred to the NIV Study Bible published by Zondervan (2002) for notes of the passage.