EVERYONE HAS HIDDEN SECRETS
Romans 7: 15-25 Living Bible (TLB)

15  I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to—what I hate.
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16  I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking.
17  But I can’t help myself because I’m no longer doing it. It is sin inside me that is stronger than I am that makes me do these evil things.

18  I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn I can’t make myself do right. I want to but I can’t.
19  When I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway.

20  Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin still has me in its evil grasp
21  It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
22 I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned;

23-24  but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin.

25 u see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature?
Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.