Romans 7

1 Or are ye ignorant, brethren, —for unto them that understand the law am I speaking, that, the law, hath lordship over a men as long as he liveth?

Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?

2 For, the married woman, unto her living husband is bound by law; but, if her husband have died, she hath received a full release from the law of her husband.

For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

3 Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called—if she become another man’s, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man’s.

So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

4 So, then, my brethren, ye also, were made dead unto the law through the body of the Christ, to the end ye might become another’s—his who from among the dead was raised, in order that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by ye body of Christ, that ye should be vnto an other, euen vnto him that is raised vp from the dead, that we should bring foorth fruite vnto God.

5 For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;

For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

6 But, now, we have received full release from the law, by dying [in that] wherein we used to be held fast, so that we should be doing service—in newness of spirit and not in obsoleteness of letter.

But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

7 What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! On the contrary, I had not discovered, sin, save through law, for even, of coveting, I had not been aware if, the law, had not kept on saying—Thou shall not covet;

What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

8 Howbeit sin taking, occasion—through the commandment, wrought out in me all manner of coveting; for, apart from law, sin is dead; —

But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead.

9 And, I, was alive, apart from law, at one time, but, the commandment coming, sin sprang up to life,

For I once was aliue, without the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,

10 Whereas, I, died, —and the commandment which was unto life was found by me to be, itself, unto death;

But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

11 For, sin, —taking occasion—through the commandment, completely deceived me and, through it, slew me:

For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

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

Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.

13 Did, then, that which is good, unto me become death? Far be it! But [it was] sin, that it might appear sin, through that which was good unto me working out death, in order that, exceeding sinful, might sin become through the commandment.

Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement.

14 For we know that, the law, is spiritual, —I, however, am a creature of flesh, sold under sin;

For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

15 For, that which I am working out, I do not approve, —for not, what I wish, the same I practise, but, what I hate, the same I do:

For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

16 Now, if what I wish not the same I do, I consent unto the law that [it is] right.

If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

17 Now, however, no longer am, I, working it out, but the, sin, that dwelleth in me:

Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

18 I know, in fact, that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, anything good; for, the wishing, lieth near me, but, the working out of what is right, not!

For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

19 For not, the good that I wish, I do, but, the evil that I do not wish, the same I practise.

For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

20 Now, if what I wish not, the same, I do, no longer am, I, working it out, but the, sin, that dwelleth in me.

Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

21 Hence, I find the law, to me who wish to be doing the right, that, unto me, the wrong lieth near:

I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

22 I have, in fact, a sympathetic pleasure in the law of God; according to the inner man.

For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:

23 But I behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members: —

But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

24 Wretched, man am, I! Who shall rescue me out of this body doomed to death?

O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!

25 [But] thanks be unto God!—Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Hence, then, —I myself, with the mind, indeed, am in servitude unto a law of God; but; with the flesh; unto a law of sin.

I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.