Conflicting Natures

Romans 7: 5-6, 11-13 NIV

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. 


For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.  

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
 
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.