Romans 7:23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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.

Cross References

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

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

Romans 6:13

No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, 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.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 7:14

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

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 7:25

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

Romans 7:5

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 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.

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.

Hebrews 12:4

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

James 3:2

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

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?

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.