23 But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the law of my [a]mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin, which is in my members.

24 [b]O [c]wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!

25 I [d]thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then I [e]myself in my mind serve the Law of God, but in my flesh the law of sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:23 The law of the mind in this place, is not to be understood of the mind as it is naturally, and as our mind is from our birth, but of the mind which is renewed by the Spirit of God.
  2. Romans 7:24 It is a miserable thing to be yet in part subject to sin, which of its own nature maketh us guilty of death: but we must cry to the Lord, who will by death itself at length make us conquerors as we are already conquerors in Christ.
  3. Romans 7:24 Wearied with miserable and continual conflict.
  4. Romans 7:25 He recovereth himself, and showeth us that he resteth only in Christ.
  5. Romans 7:25 This is the true perfection of them that are born anew, to confess that they are imperfect.

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