Romans 7:14,25
Romans 7:14-16 The Message (MSG)
I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.
Romans 7:25 The Message (MSG)
The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.
Romans 7:14 King James Version (KJV)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:25 King James Version (KJV)
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
Romans 7:25 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 New Century Version (NCV)
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.
Romans 7:25 New Century Version (NCV)
I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 American Standard Version (ASV)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:25 American Standard Version (ASV)
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 New International Version (NIV)
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Romans 7:25 New International Version (NIV)
Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:25 New King James Version (NKJV)
I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control].
Romans 7:25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness, my sinful capacity—I serve] the law of sin.
Romans 7:14 New Living Translation (NLT)
So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
Romans 7:25 New Living Translation (NLT)
Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
Romans 7:14 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For we know that the law is divinely inspired and comes from the spiritual realm, but I am a human being made of flesh and trafficked as a slave under sin’s authority.
Romans 7:25 The Passion Translation (TPT)
I give all my thanks to God, for his mighty power has finally provided a way out through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! So if left to myself, the flesh is aligned with the law of sin, but now my renewed mind is fixed on and submitted to God’s righteous principles.