Romans 7:23 (WEB)
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.
Catechism · 1
“The gap between wanting and doing points to the conflict between God's Law which is the "law of my mind," and another law "making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 7:23; cf. 7:10.
Fathers and councils · 31
John Damascene
“Moreover the precept, which teaches this, is law, that we, holding by it, may walk in light: and the transgression of this precept is sin, and this continues to exist on account of the assault of the devil and our unconstrained and voluntary reception of it.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The Devil had used the flesh as an instrument against us; and Paul knowing this, saith, But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity, and the rest.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In us, too, the law of this flesh wars against the law of our mind, and makes us captives of sin, so that we do what we would not.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23 ff.
Read the whole comment“For the law of the flesh wars against the law of the mind, and makes it over to the law of error, as the Apostle has made known to us, saying: “For I see a law of the flesh in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity in the law of sin.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.11Conference XXIII
“…be united to God alone, but they “see another law in their members,” i.e., implanted in their natural human condition, which “resisting the law of their mind,” brings their thoughts into captivity to the forcible law of sin, compelling them to forsake that chief good and submit to earthly notions, which though they…” — editor's note: Ib. vii. 22, 23.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For though a man “delight in the law of God after the inward man,” what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members?” — editor's note: Ibid. ver. 23.
Read the whole comment““O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death” but Thy grace only, through Jesus Christ our Lord?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 22–24. This difficilis et periculosus locus (Serm. cliv. 1) he interprets differently at different periods of his life. In this place, as elsewhere…
Read the whole comment“Because “I see another law in my members fighting against the law of my mind.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“But there is there too human frailness, there is there still the first captivity, there is there too the law in the members fighting against the law of the mind, and willing to lead captive in the law of sin: still the body which is corrupt presseth down the soul.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“Whence comes our lamentation, but from that cause wherefore the Apostle exclaimed that he was a wretched man, because he saw another law in his members, warring against the law in his mind?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“And also the same teacher of the Gentiles cries aloud, “I take pleasure together with the law of God after the inner man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 22, 23
Read the whole comment“As ye read, “I see another law in my members, opposed to the law of my mind;” so read ye, “As Christ loved the Church, so also ought men to love their own wives, as their own bodies.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23
Read the whole comment“…warring against the law of my mind;” and to testify our grief with tearful voice, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment““I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“With good reason then is the sweetness of God hidden to thee.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“The grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“And then he concluded thus: “So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“A certain kind of peace, accordingly, we do possess, inasmuch as we delight in the law of God after the inward man: but it is not a full peace, for we see another law in our members warring against the law of our mind.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 22, 23.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.5Book III
“And it is with respect to this that they think the apostle uttered the words: “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.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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Gregory the Great
“…15); wherein We see another law in our members warring against the law of our mind, and bringing us into captivity by the law of sin which is in our members (Rom. vii. 23); wherein Even in ourselves we have the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves (2 Cor. i. 9); wherein also the Prophet cries aloud,…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Whence even that chief soldier of the heavenly army groaned, saying, I see another law in my members fighting against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members (Rom. vii. 23).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hence it is that Paul, the teacher and preacher of the Gentiles, says, 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 (Rom. vii. 23).” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“…be a castaway; and yet, for all that, sees another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin; if after nakedness, fasting, hunger, imprisonment, scourging and other torments, he turns back to himself and cries “Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall…” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“In the words of the apostle she saw another law in her members warring against the law of her mind; she felt herself dragged in chains as a captive towards the indulgences of wedlock.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“Is there any man who is not appalled by the struggle of which the apostle says: “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?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“So likewise the apostle: “I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity”; and again, “The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that I do.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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Tertullian
““For the law,” says he, “of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death,”—that, surely, which he previously mentioned as dwelling in our members.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17, 20, 23.
Read the whole comment“The sting of death is sin”—here is the corruption; “and the strength of sin is the law”—that other law, no doubt, which he has described “in his members as warring against the law of his mind,”—meaning, of course, the actual power of sinning against his will.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
Read the whole comment“For he in a previous verse ascribed sin to the flesh, and made it out to be “the law of sin dwelling in his members,” and “warring against the law of the mind.”” — editor's note: Sensus νοός in Rom. vii. 23.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…by the aid of our senses and other sources of the pleasures of this life; and against the miry clay in which we have been fixed; and against the law of sin, which wars against the law of the spirit, and strives to destroy the royal image in us, and all the divine emanation which has been bestowed upon us; so that…” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Miser ego homo, quis me liberabit de corpore morris hujus?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 20, 23, 24.
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Cross-references · 36
Cited together in De Principiis III.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.22 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in De Principiis III.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.22.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.31.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.31.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.31.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.31.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.11.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 77.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.