Romans 7:23
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- ASV
- but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- DARBY
- but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.
- BLB
- but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members.
- ÅB
- men jeg ser en annen lov i lemmene mine, som kjemper imot loven i mitt sinn, og tar meg til fange under syndens lov, den som er i lemmene mine.
- OTB
- men jeg ser en annen lov i arbeid i meg, som fører krig mot loven i mitt sinn og gjør meg til en fange av syndens lov som er i arbeid i min kropp.
- B1930
- men jeg ser en annen lov i mine lemmer, som strider mot loven i mitt sinn og tar mig til fange under syndens lov, den som er i mine lemmer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 5:17
For 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.
Read in contextJames 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Read in contextRomans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Read in contextRomans 6:19
I 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 unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Read in contextRomans 7:25
I 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.
Read in context1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Read in contextHebrews 12:4
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:25–26
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
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