Romans 7:23
but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God:
24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?
Cross References
Romans 6:19I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.
Romans 7:25I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.
2 Timothy 2:25in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment 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 →