Romans 7:23
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
24A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
Romans 6:19In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness — to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness — to sanctification,
Romans 7:14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
Romans 7:25I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will — these ye may not do;
2 Timothy 2:25in meekness instructing those opposing — if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an 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 →