Romans 7:21-8:8
New International Version
21 So I find this law at work:(A) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(B) I delight in God’s law;(C) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(D) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(E) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(F) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(G)
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(H) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(I)
Life Through the Spirit
8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation(J) for those who are in Christ Jesus,(K) 2 because through Christ Jesus(L) the law of the Spirit who gives life(M) has set you[b] free(N) from the law of sin(O) and death. 3 For what the law was powerless(P) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[c](Q) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh(R) to be a sin offering.[d](S) And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement(T) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.(U)
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;(V) but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.(W) 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death,(X) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life(Y) and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(Z) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh(AA) cannot please God.
Footnotes
- Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
- Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me
- 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.
- Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin
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