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 ye not, brethren, ( for I speak to them that know the law, ) that the law hath dominion over a man as long 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 hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is 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.

So then if, while her husband liveth, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to 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, 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 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 sinful passions, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth 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.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were held; 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? By no means. 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.

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 lust. For apart from 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.

For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.

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

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

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

Therefore the law 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 then that which is good made death to me? By no means. 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.

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 do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not; but what 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 would 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 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.

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 would I do not: 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.

Now if 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 would do good, 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 after 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, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity 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 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.

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.