For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work in my members. — The ἔσω ἄνθρωπος (esō anthropos, "inner person/mind") delights (συνήδομαι, synēdomai, "rejoice with") in God's νόμος (nomos, "law"); but another law (ἕτερος νόμος, heteros nomos) wages war (ἀντιστρατεύομαι, antistrateuomai, "war against") the νοῦς (nous, "mind/reason"). The self is a battlefield: mind versus flesh, spirit versus sin. Sin's law makes the body's members prisoners of transgression.

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