Romans 7:23

Weymouth NT

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body–the Law of sin.

Cross References

Romans 6:13

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

Romans 6:19

your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures–and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual–the slave, bought and sold, of sin.

Romans 7:21

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I –my true self– am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions – made sinful by the Law– were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

Romans 8:2

for the Spirit's Law – telling of Life in Christ Jesus– has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

Galatians 5:17

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

James 3:2

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

James 4:1

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.