Romans 7:23

But I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

In Context

22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

24O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?

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Cross References

Romans 6:19I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness resulting in more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in 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 myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

2 Timothy 2:25in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full 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 →

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