Romans 7:23

New International Reader's Version

But I see another law working in me. It fights against the law of my mind. It makes me a prisoner of the law of sin. That law controls me.

Cross References

Psalm 142:7

My troubles are like a prison. Set me free so I can praise your name. Then those who do what is right will gather around me because you have been good to me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

It is true that there isn’t anyone on earth who does only what is right and never sins.

Romans 6:13

Don’t give any part of yourself to serve sin. Don’t let any part of yourself be used to do evil. Instead, give yourselves to God. You have been brought from death to life. So give every part of yourself to God to do what is right.

Romans 6:19

Because you are human, you find this hard to understand. So I am using an everyday example to help you understand. You used to give yourselves to be slaves to unclean living. You were becoming more and more evil. Now give yourselves to be slaves to right living. Then you will become holy.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is holy. But I am not. I have been sold to be a slave of sin.

Romans 7:21

Here is the law I find working in me. When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:25

I give thanks to God who saves me. He saves me through Jesus Christ our Lord. So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law. But sin controls my desires. So I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

The power of sin used to control us. The law stirred up sinful desires in us. So the things we did resulted in death.

Romans 8:2

Because of what Christ Jesus has done, you are free. You are now controlled by the law of the Holy Spirit who gives you life. The law of the Spirit frees you from the law of sin that brings death.

Galatians 5:17

The desires controlled by sin do not want what the Spirit delights in. And the Spirit does not want what the desires controlled by sin delight in. The two are at war with each other. That’s why you are not supposed to do whatever you want.

Hebrews 12:4

You struggle against sin. But you have not yet fought to the point of spilling your blood.

James 3:2

All of us get tripped up in many ways. Suppose someone is never wrong in what they say. Then they are perfect. They are able to keep their whole body under control.

James 4:1

Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn’t it because of your sinful desires? They fight within you.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are outsiders and those who wander in this world. So I’m asking you not to give in to your sinful desires. They fight against your soul.