Romans 7:23
But I see another law in the members of my body, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the law of God in my inner man:
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death?
Cross References
Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness and to ever increasing iniquity; so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to holiness.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.
Romans 7:25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with my mind I myself serve the law of God; but with my flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are in conflict with one another: so that you cannot do the things that you wish.
2 Timothy 2:25In gentleness correcting those who oppose him; that God might 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 →