Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
The verse describes the inward conflict of the repentant sinner, whose mind delights in God's law while sin working in the members wars against the mind and brings the person into captivity. The other law is hereditary tendencies to wrong in human nature striving for mastery over the mind, a struggle between sin and reason and between grace and nature. When God's love is absent from the heart, those sinful tendencies prevail instead of the Spirit of God and salvation.
Sin in this condition takes undisputed possession of the whole person, ruling by the spirit of disobedience, darkening the reasoning powers and leaving unrest without true peace even when one appears satisfied with self. The law only exposes sin and cannot itself deliver from it; deliverance comes through Jesus Christ, and life comes as the Spirit leads in putting sinful deeds to death. Victory is possible when human weakness is joined to divine strength through continual resistance, arising in the power and assurance of faith in Christ, and keeping self in continual subjection to Christ until self dies so that Christ's peace takes possession of the soul under God's will and control.
Freedom requires breaking every yoke and having the understanding enlightened to discern the excellence of God's perfect rule of righteousness; if admitting wrong seems too humiliating the spell is not broken and Satan fastens deception more firmly, using human allies and glowing promises of gain to turn penitence into defiance. The warfare is daily, with objectionable traits of character to be warred against every day until none remain, and ministers of the gospel are solemnly obligated to be wise in God's wisdom rather than self-conceit, to foresee coming evils and avoid their causes, and to show the softening, subduing power of Christlike character, since the power of holy living is far ahead of all doctrinal discourses.