“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.”
Therefore, I myself in my mind am a servant of God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. — The final verse recapitulates the internal fracture; σάρκι δουλεύω νόμῳ ἁμαρτίας (sarki douleuō nomō hamartias, "with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin") and νοῒ δουλεύω νόμῳ θεοῦ (noï douleuō nomō theou, "with my mind I serve God's law"). This is the anatomy of the unregenerate self: divided, aware of goodness yet impotent, awaiting transformation by the Spirit in chapter 8.
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