Romans 7

1 Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law, ) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

3 so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.

4 So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead.

9 But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

But I was alive at one time without law: but the commandment having come, sin revived,

10 And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.

11 for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

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

12 So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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

13 Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

Then did that which is good become death to me? it could not be so: but sin, that it may appear sin, through the good was working out death to me, in order that sin may be exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

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

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

15 For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate.

16 But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.

But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful;

17 Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not:

19 For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.

20 But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

21 I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me:

22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man;

23 but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

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 O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of 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 myself with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.

Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.