Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
24I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.
Romans 6:19(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
Romans 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.
2 Timothy 2:25in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →