Over and over again, these things catch up to us and make us miserable. Paul goes on to talk about how the reality is that we are so contaminated by sin that it is sometimes hard to distinguish where sin begins and where it ends. Most people think of sin as individual acts of disobedience against God or against our neighbor. That's part of what sin is. The other part of sin is more insidious.
Sin is a condition or a state of being.
One way of getting at it is a favorite question of mine. The joke assumes a condition a state of being. Men are wrong. Sin is that same kind of condition. The reality is that there is evil in the world, in this community, in this congregation, and in our own lives that is growing up along side the good.