Romans 7

1 Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?

Know all of you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

2 For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

Wherefore, my brethren, all of you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that all of you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, (pneuma) and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.

8 But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

9 And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwells no good thing: in order to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

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.

24 I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.