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?

KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

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 hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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 her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to 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.

Wherefore, 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 unto 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 the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness 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 law sin? God forbid. 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 Howbeit sin taking, occasion—through the commandment, wrought out in me all manner of coveting; for, apart from 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 And, I, was alive, apart from law, at one time, but, the commandment coming, sin sprang up to life,

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

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

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

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

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

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, 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 then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. 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, —I, however, am a creature of flesh, sold under sin;

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

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 that which I do I allow not: 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 then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

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

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin 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 will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin 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 find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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

For I delight in the law of God after the inward 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, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin 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 deliver 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 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.