Rom 7:23  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. ASV

Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. KJV

Rom 7:23  but I see another law in my members having warred against the law of my mind, and taking me captive by the law of sin being in my members. LITV
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                                    COMMENTARY

  Where is the law of sin?  In his.... Members!  The same Members Paul instructs folks in Romans 6 to yield to Righteousness.  How can anyone yield Members, within which dwells the law of Sin, ~Wherein he is held in Captivity~...  unto Righteousness? When someone is in Captivity folks that means he is a 24/7 possession of his Captor! Like a Prisoner of War. The POW does not have the luxury of taking trips back & forth between his own forces and his Captor whenever he wants to. Nonsense! When someone becomes a Captive, as in POW he stays a Captive of the enemy until he is set free. Look up Strong's #163. The "struggle with remaining corruption" people would have us believe that a Christian can traipse back & forth between his Captor and his own side whenever he wants to. There is just no way to avoid the dilemma of such a contradiction. The only possible answer is Romans 7 is describing an unregenerate man.

2Co 10:5  casting down imaginations, and  ~every~ high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing  ~every~ thought into captivity... {{aichmalotizo  aheekh-mal-o-tid’-zo ... Strong's #163, same word in Romans 7:23...}}  to the obedience of Christ;

Does that sound like a description of the man in Romans 7?

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