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The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 6.5

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The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;1 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.2
expand_more [1] Romans 7:18, 23; Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8
expand_more [2] Romans 7:23–25; Galatians 5:17

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What is the state of corruption in those who are regenerated?
It is removed.
It remains, but its effects are entirely removed.
It remains, but it itself is not sin, only that transgression which proceeds from it
It remains, itself being sin as well as those transgressions which proceed from it

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