but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
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