Romans 7:23
but I perceive 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.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the Law of God, as to the inward man;
24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20Truly there is not a righteous man upon the earth who doeth good and sinneth not.
Romans 6:19I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.
Romans 7:14For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, a slave sold to sin.
Romans 7:25Thanks be to God, [[who hath delivered me]] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.
2 Timothy 2:25in meekness admonishing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance to attain the 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 →