Romans 7

1 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?

Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

2 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.

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

3 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.

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

4 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.

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

5 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.

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

6 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.

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

7 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.

What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

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

'Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness — for apart from law sin is dead.

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

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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

and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

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

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];

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

so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

13 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.

That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

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

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

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

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

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

And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,

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

and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

18 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.

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

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

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

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

And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

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

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

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

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

23 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.

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.

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

A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

25 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.

I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.