Romans 7:21-8:9

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²¹So I find this law at work:^(A) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being^(B) I delight in God’s law;^(C) ²³but 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. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^(F) ²⁵Thanks 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) ²because 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. ³For 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, ⁴in 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)

⁵Those 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) ⁶The mind governed by the flesh is death,^(X) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life^(Y) and peace. ⁷The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^(Z) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸Those who are in the realm of the flesh^(AA) cannot please God.

⁹You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh^(AB) but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.^(AC) And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,^(AD) they do not belong to Christ.

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

Romans 12:1-2

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A Living Sacrifice

12 Therefore, I urge you,^(A) brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,^(B) holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ²Do not conform^(C) to the pattern of this world,^(D) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.^(E) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is^(F)—his good, pleasing^(G) and perfect will.