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Romans 7:23
Romans 7:23 is verse 23 of Romans chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Literally captive to the law of sin being in my members.
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Romans 7:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
23 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.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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Cross-references
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Romans 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Romans 7:21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
Romans 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
1 Timothy 6:11But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
Hebrews 12:4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
James 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
James 4:1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Romans 6:13Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Romans 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Psalms 142:7Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
2 Timothy 2:25He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:26Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.