Romans 7:23
But I see a different principle in my body parts. It fights against that new principle in my mind. It takes me captive by the principle of sin that is in my body parts.
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In Context
22For I rejoice in the law of God with the inner man.
24I am a miserable man! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is not a righteous man on earth 2 who does good and never sins. 1
Romans 6:19I speak like a man because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to uncleanness and to evil, in the same way now, present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh. I have been sold under slavery to sin.
Romans 7:25But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the principle of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the desires of the sinful nature are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the sinful nature. For these are in conflict with each other, so that you cannot do the things you want.
2 Timothy 2:25He must in meekness educate those who oppose him. God may perhaps give them repentance for 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 →