We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. — Paul diagnoses the crisis: the νόμος (nomos, "law") is πνευματικός (pneumatikos, "spiritual")—oriented to the Spirit's reality—but the "I" (ἐγώ, egō) is σάρκινος (sarkinos, "fleshly"), dominated by the σάρξ (sarx, "flesh"). The self is sold under sin (τῷ ἁμαρτίᾳ, tō hamartia, "to sin") like a slave in chains. The law's transcendence and human bondage are irreconcilable.

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