Romans 7

1 Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

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 woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of 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 liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be 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 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto 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, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; 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 shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt 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, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: 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 And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

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

10 and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:

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

11 for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

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

12 So that the law 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 then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shewn 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 carnal, sold under sin.

For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;

15 For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; 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 what I would not, that I do, I consent unto 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 dwelleth 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, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is 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 would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.

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 would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth 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 who would 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 the law of God after the inward man:

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 O wretched man that I am! who shall 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 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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.