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21 So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.

22 For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature].(A)

23 But I discern in my bodily members [[a]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [[b]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:23 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  2. Romans 7:23 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.

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