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?

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it 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 a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged 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.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

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.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might 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 sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as 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 by which we were bound, that we might serve God 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 to be sinful, if the law had not 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,

And I was heretofore alive without the law: 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 intended 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.

So that 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 might be shewn by the commandment to be 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 I do not that which I would; but what I hate, this I do.

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

And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good:

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

but now I am no more the doer of 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: 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 I do not the good that I would; but the evil which I would not, this 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 which I would not, I am no more the doer of 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 kind of law, that when I would do good, evil besets 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, as to 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 perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

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

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of 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.

The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.