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?

Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it 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 that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her 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.

Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

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.

Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to 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 passions of sins, which were by the law, did work 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 are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness 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 shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: 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 taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

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

And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

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

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

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

Wherefore 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.

Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me; that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

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 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 work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which 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.

If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

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

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth 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 to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish 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 the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will 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.

Now if I do that which I will 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 have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

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

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to 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, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

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

Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver 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.

The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.