## 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 ##

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

## a different principle in my body parts ##

the old nature, the way people are when they are born

## that new principle ##

the new spiritually alive nature

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

"my sinful nature," the sinful nature I was born with