Romans 7:23

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 142:7

O Lord, heed me quickly. My spirit has grown faint. Do not turn your face away from me, lest I become like those who descend into the pit.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.

Romans 6:13

Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Romans 7:21

And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.

Romans 7:25

The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord! Therefore, I serve the law of God with my own mind; but with the flesh, the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.

Hebrews 12:4

For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin.

James 3:2

For we all offend in many ways. If anyone does not offend in word, he is a perfect man. And he is then able, as if with a bridle, to lead the whole body around.

James 4:1

Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.