Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
24Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.
2 Timothy 2:25in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge 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 →