Romans 7:23
but I see another law at work in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that is in my members.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being,
24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Cross References
Romans 6:19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave to sin.
Romans 7:25I thank God that he will do so through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is contrary to the flesh. These are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the very things you want to do.
2 Timothy 2:25instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading to 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 →