²³ but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

¹¹ Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

²¹ I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

² For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

²⁵ in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

²⁶ and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

¹¹ But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

¹³ Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, For you will be good to me.