richmahn_en_tn/rom/07/22.md

## the inner man ##

The part of a person that remains after the body dies. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## a different principle in my body parts, warring against that new principle in my mind, and taking me captive ##

AT: "I am able only to do what my old nature tells me to do, not to live the new way the Spirit shows me"

## that new principle ##

This is the new spiritually alive nature.

## a different principle in my body parts ##

This is the old nature, the way people are when they are born.

## the principle of sin which is in my body parts ##

AT: "my sinful nature"