Romans 7:23

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 142:7

Listen to my cry for help, for I am brought very low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

yet there is no one on earth so just as to do good and never sin.

Romans 6:13

And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.

Romans 7:21

So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.

Hebrews 12:4

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

James 3:2

for we all fall short in many respects. If anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body also.

James 4:1

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.