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?
Do you not know, brethren, (for I speak to them who know law, ) that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
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 the married woman is bound, by law, to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is released from the law of her 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.
If, then, indeed, while her husband lives, she be married to another, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though married to another husband.
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.
Thus, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law, by the body of Christ, that you may be married to another, who rose from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to 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 the flesh, our sinful passions which were through the law, wrought effectually in our members, to bring forth fruit to 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, having died with Christ, we are released from the law, by which we were held in bondage; so that we may serve God in newness of spirit, and not in 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;
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? By no means. Indeed, I had not known sin, except by the law. For I had not known even inordinate desire, unless the law had said, "You shall not lust."
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 by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of inordinate desire: for without the law sin is dead.
9 But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
For I was alive, once, without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.
10 And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
Yes, the commandment which was for live, the very same was found to be death to me.
11 for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Wherefore, the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, 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.
Has, then, that which is good become death to me? By no means. But sin becomes death, in order that it might manifest itself, causing death to me by that which is good: so that sin, (through the commandment, ) might be an exceedingly great sinner.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Besides, we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, 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 do not approve; since it is not what I desire that I do: 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.
If, now, I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
But now it is no longer I myself who do this; but sin which dwells 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 flesh, there dwells no good thing: for to desire what is good, is easy for me; but to do it, I find difficult.
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 desire, that I do not: but the evil which I desire not, 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.
Now, if I do that which I do not desire, it is no longer I who do it; but sin, which dwells in me.
21 I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.
I find, then, that it is a law to me, when desirous to do good, that evil is near me.
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
For I take pleasure in the law of God, as to the inner 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 perceive another law, in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive 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?
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of 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.
I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Wherefore, then, indeed, I myself serve, with my mind, the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.
