Romans 7:14 - Compare All Versions

Deli

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.

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

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.

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

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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

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].

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.

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.

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