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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"