Romans 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ But I discern in my bodily members [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 [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 7:23 Cross References

Galatians 5:17

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.

James 4:1

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Romans 7:21

So I find it to be a law that, when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.

Romans 7:5

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 6:13

No longer present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Psalm 142:7

Bring me out of prison, so that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.