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?

Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person for 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 her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning 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.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she is called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined 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.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bear 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, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit for 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 released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Ruach, 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? Absolutely not. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness, unless the law had said, "You shall 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 opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

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

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

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

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

for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

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

Therefore the law indeed is 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.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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 fleshly, 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 I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

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

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

So now it is no more I that do it, 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, dwells no good thing. For the desire is present in me, but the doing of the good 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 desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

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.

But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that 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 the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

For I delight in God's law in my inner being,

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 a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under 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?

What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of 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 to God through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.