Romans 7

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

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 woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] 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 if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married 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 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto 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 motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the 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? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

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, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.

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

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

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

11 For sin, taking occasion 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 Wherefore the law [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 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; 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 carnal, 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 allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.

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 more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth 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, ) dwelleth no 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 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 the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth 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 a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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 after 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 against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is 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 from the body of this 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 with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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.