Thanks be to God—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. — The answer erupts: Χάρις τῷ θεῷ (Charis tō theō, "Thanks to God!") through Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν (Iēsoun Christon, "Jesus Christ")—deliverance is eschatological and christological, not legal. Yet Paul restates the divided condition: νοῦς (nous, "mind") enslaved to God's law, σάρξ (sarx, "flesh") enslaved to sin's law. The question is answered, but the divided self remains—until chapter 8.

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