Romans 7

1 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?

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?

2 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.

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.

3 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.

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.

4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bear fruit to God.

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.

5 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.

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.

6 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 Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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.

7 What should 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, "Do not covet."

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.

8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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

13 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

18 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.

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.

19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

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

20 But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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

21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

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

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

23 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.

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.

24 What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

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.