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Rom.7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Paul here legally separates sin from himself in this manner he can objectively understand how God see the human race, and himself in dealing with sins moderately. Paul understood the issue from Adams time forward, the desire of the spirit is less than the sinful flesh
desires. No matter our desire it does not appease the requirements of God Law for justice.

No matter our zeal for the Law’s righteousness, or the love for the Law it does not give us a better standing with God than God's demand for Justice. The wages sin pays is death, sin kills the spirit in us, and weaken it so we cannot meet God’s perfect requirement of the Law. Paul had once confused himself with his great zeal for the law, now he must think in cold legal terms without emotion to understand God’s impartiality when judging Paul according to His Law. God hates sin, but not the spirit of Paul desiring to please Him. God justice must be executed on Paul, as Paul himself executed judgment on Law breakers.
God would satisfy the Law justice, in substituting a sinless life for Paul’s own life. Paul could not satisfy the Law’s justice with his own life, he could not earn enough merit under the Law by his love for the Law; to redeem himself from the perfect justice
of God’s Law.

Proverbs 20:23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

Proverbs 18:5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Levitius 19:15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

James 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Rom. 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

All sin is evil, there is nothing good in sin, the law shows us to be sinners; sin resides in our flesh, the flesh can be so exceedingly sinful it destroys the spirit or good in us. Paul must deal with the hard reality the Law exposes; he is a sinner, and nothing good dwells
in sin. Although his desire of his spirit is strong to love God, and do good; his sinful flesh wins out.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

God’s Law see evil (sin) in Paul, God does not accept evil and good as pure worship, He does not mixes wickedness with goodness and call it light.

Paul finds himself condemned with no way out. No matter what his godly spirit desire in severing God, no matter his zeal for God’s law; he is a polluted person with sin. He cannot with his desire satisfy the Laws requirements. He cannot do enough good according to the Law that he so loves, and worships in removing his sin.

The more he digs into the Law the greater the depth of his sinfulness against God’s perfect law, the more he looks for good in himself to satisfy God’s justice the greater the condemnation by God’s Law is found for him. He must confess the truth because he loves the Law; “nothing good dwell in my flesh, according to God’s righteous
judgment of me“.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
John 8:7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."