24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me (A)from this body of death? 25 (B)I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Free from Indwelling Sin

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, (C)who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For (D)the law of (E)the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from (F)the law of sin and death. For (G)what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, (H)God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who (I)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:1 NU omits the rest of v. 1.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(A) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(B)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(C) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(D)

Life Through the Spirit

Therefore, there is now no condemnation(E) for those who are in Christ Jesus,(F) because through Christ Jesus(G) the law of the Spirit who gives life(H) has set you[b] free(I) from the law of sin(J) and death. For what the law was powerless(K) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[c](L) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh(M) to be a sin offering.[d](N) And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement(O) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.(P)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
  2. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me
  3. Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.
  4. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin