Romans 7
1 Are you ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man as long as he lives?
Or do ye not know, my Brethren.-(for I am speaking to them that know the law, )- that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he is alive?
2 For the married woman to the living husband has been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she has been free from the law of the husband;
Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her husband, as long as he is alive: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband.
3 so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress 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.
And if, while her husband is alive, she should adhere to another man, she would become an adulteress: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law; and would not be an adulteress though joined to another man.
4 So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another’s, who was raised up out of the dead, that we might bear fruit to God;
And now, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye might be joined to another, even to him who arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto God.
5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to death;
For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.
6 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.
But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that we might henceforth serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:
What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:
8 “You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.
and by this commandment, sin found occasion, and perfected in me all concupiscence: for without the law, sin was dead.
9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died;
10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
and the commandment of life was found by me to be unto death.
11 for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me.
12 so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.
13 That which is good then, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the command.
Did that which is good, therefore, become death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of that good law; that sin might the more be condemned, by means of the commandment.
14 For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
For we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold to sin.
15 for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.
For what I am doing, I know not: and what I would, I do not perform; but what I hate, that I do.
16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
And if I do what I would not, I testify of the law, that it is right.
17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
And then, it is no more I who do that thing; but sin, which dwelleth in me.
18 for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh, ) good dwelleth not: because, to approve the good, is easy for me; but to do it, I am unable.
19 for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
For I do not perform the good, which I would perform; but the bad, which I would not perform, that I do perform.
20 And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but sin that is dwelling in me.
And if I do what I would not, it is not I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
I find therefore a law coinciding with my conscience, which assenteth to my doing good, whereas evil is near to me.
22 for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior man.
23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that [is] in my members.
But I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my conscience, and maketh me a captive to the law of sin which existeth in my members
24 A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed serve the Law of God with the mind, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah I shall be rescued. [ (Romans 7:26) Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin. ]
