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.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to ( work ) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, to ( work ) holiness.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:25I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
2 Timothy 2:25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging 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 →