Romans 7:23
but I see a different law at work within me that is at war with the law my mind has decided to follow, making me a prisoner of the law of sin that is within me.
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22My inner self is delighted with God's law,
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.
Romans 6:19I'm using this everyday example because your human thinking is limited. Just as you once enslaved yourselves to immorality, piling up sin upon sin, now you must enslave yourselves to what is pure and right.
Romans 7:14We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.
Romans 7:25Here's the situation: while I myself choose with my mind to obey God's law, my human nature obeys the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the desires of the sinful nature are opposed to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are opposed to the sinful nature. They fight one another, so you don't do what you want to do.
2 Timothy 2:25gently correcting opponents. Perhaps God may help them to come to repent and to understand 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 →