Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my soul, and making me captive in the law of sin, that is in my members.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 (al)together to the law of God, after the inner man. (For I greatly delight in the Law of God, in my inner man.)

24I am an unhappy [or a woeful] man; who shall deliver me from the body of this sin?

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20Forsooth no just man there is in [the] earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. (But there is no righteous person in the earth who only, or who always, doeth good, and never sinneth.)

Romans 6:19I say that thing that is of man, for the unsteadfastness, [or the infirmity, or unstableness], of your flesh, (or for the frailty, or the weakness, of your flesh). But as ye have given your members to serve to uncleanness, and to wickedness into wickedness, so now give ye your members to serve to rightwiseness into holiness.

Romans 7:14And we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7:25The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore I myself by the soul serve to the law of God; but by the flesh to the law of sin.

Galatians 5:17For the flesh coveteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these be adversaries together, that ye do not all things that ye will, (or for they be adversaries with each other, so that ye do not do the things that ye desire to do).

2 Timothy 2:25with temperance reproving them that against-stand the truth, that sometime God give to them forthinking, (or repenting), [or penance], (so) that they know 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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