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22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power[a] within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

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  1. 7:23 Greek law; also in 7:23b.

22 For in my inner being(A) I delight in God’s law;(B) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(C) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(D) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(E) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(F)

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

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  1. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh