Romans 7

1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?

2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by ye body of Christ, that ye should be vnto an other, euen vnto him that is raised vp from the dead, that we should bring foorth fruite vnto God.

5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead.

9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

For I once was aliue, without the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,

10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

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

Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

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

16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:

23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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

25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.