17 For wthe desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, xto keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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Romans 7:23
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
James 4:1
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Romans 7:15
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 7:19
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
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