Romans 7:23

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.

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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 according to the inward man;

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

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Cross References

Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.

Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Romans 7:25Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.

Galatians 5:17For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.

2 Timothy 2:25in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect 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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