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 ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man as long as he lives?

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 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;

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.

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.

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.

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;

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, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to 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.

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.

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, 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:

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

“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.

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

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;

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

and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

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

for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],

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

so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, 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.

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.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by 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 do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.

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

And if what I do not will, this I do, 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.

and now it is no longer I that work it, 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 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,

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 that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.

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.

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.

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

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,

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

for I delight in 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.

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.

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

A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of 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 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.