{"id":50001,"date":"2025-05-16T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingulamashahidi.org\/?p=50001"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:08:15","slug":"50001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingulamashahidi.org\/en\/2025\/05\/16\/50001\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Romans 7:25 \u2013 Do We Serve the Law of Sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Question:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What is the meaning of Romans 7:25? Does it mean we continue serving the law of sin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Romans 7:25 (ESV):<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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“Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Explanation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In Romans chapter 7<\/strong>, the Apostle Paul describes a profound and personal struggle between two realities:<\/p>\n

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    His inner desire to obey God<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    And the sinful nature (the flesh)<\/strong> that continues to wage war against that desire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Paul is not making excuses for sin, nor is he promoting a life of spiritual defeat. Rather, he is revealing the deep conflict that exists in the life of every believer: the tension between the regenerate mind<\/strong> (which loves God\u2019s law) and the unredeemed flesh<\/strong> (which is still prone to sin).<\/p>\n

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    Paul\u2019s Inner Conflict:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    In Romans 7:19\u201320 (NIV)<\/strong>, Paul says:<\/p>\n

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    \u201cFor I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do\u2014this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    This passage reveals the dual nature of the believer’s experience:<\/p>\n