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23 But I discern in my bodily members [[a]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [[b]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

24 O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?

25 O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:23 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  2. Romans 7:23 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.

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