Romans 7

1 ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law, ) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

2 For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

3 She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

8 But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

9 For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

10 And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death.

and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:

11 For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

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

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

13 Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good in itself, was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. 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 carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

16 But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent.

But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.

19 For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.

20 If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

22 For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is 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, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

25 I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.