22 For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the [a]inner man.

23 But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the law of my [b]mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin, which is in my members.

24 [c]O [d]wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:22 The inner man, and the new man are all one, and are answerable and set as contrary to the old man: neither doth this word, Inner man, signify man’s mind and reason, and the old man, the powers that are under them, as the Philosophers imagine, but by the outward man is meant whatsoever is either without or within a man, from top to toe, so long as that man is not born anew by the grace of God.
  2. Romans 7:23 The law of the mind in this place, is not to be understood of the mind as it is naturally, and as our mind is from our birth, but of the mind which is renewed by the Spirit of God.
  3. Romans 7:24 It is a miserable thing to be yet in part subject to sin, which of its own nature maketh us guilty of death: but we must cry to the Lord, who will by death itself at length make us conquerors as we are already conquerors in Christ.
  4. Romans 7:24 Wearied with miserable and continual conflict.

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