23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-25)Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:—1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other appr…
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