“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.
Church Fathers on Romans 7:25
“I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Observe how he shows the necessity of having grace present with us, and that the well-doings herein belong alike to the Father and the Son. For if it is the Father Whom he thanks, still the Son is the cause of this thanksgiving. But when you hear him say, “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” do not suppose him to be accusing the flesh. For he does not say “body of sin,” but “body of death:” that is, the mortal body…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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