Verse 23

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
  • Rom 7:21 : 21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.
  • Heb 12:4 : 4 Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
  • 1 Tim 6:11-12 : 11 But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour. 12 Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
  • 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, 26 And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
  • Ps 142:7 : 7 Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.