Romans 7

1 Remember ye not brethren (I speake to them yt know the lawe) how that the lawe hath power over a man as longe as it endureth?

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

2 For the woman which is in subieccion to a man is bounde by the lawe to the man as longe as he liveth. Yf the man be deed she is lowsed from the lawe of the man.

For instance, a 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 of marriage.

3 So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

4 Even so ye my brethren are deed concerninge the lawe by the body of Christ yt ye shuld be coupled to another (I meane to him that is rysen agayne fro deeth) that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto God.

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesshe the lustes of synne which were stered vppe by ye lawe raygned in oure membres to bringe forth frute vnto deeth.

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

6 But now are we delivered fro the lawe and deed fro that whervnto we werein bondage that we shuld serve in a newe conversacion of ye sprete and not in ye olde conversacion of the letter.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

7 What shall we saye then? is ye lawe synne? God forbid: but I knewe not what synne meant but by the lawe. For I had not knowne what lust had meant excepte the lawe had sayde thou shalt not lust.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

8 But synne toke an occasion by the meanes of the commaundement and wrought in me all manner of concupiscece. For with out the lawe synne was deed.

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 I once lived with out lawe. But when the commaundement came synne revyved and I was deed.

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

10 And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

11 For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe we.

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

12 Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13 Was that then which is good made deeth vnto me? God forbyd. Naye synne was deeth vnto me that it myght appere how that synne by the meanes of that which is good had wrought deeth in me: that synne which is vnder the commandemet myght be out of measure synfull.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

15 because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

16 Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

17 So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

18 For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

19 For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

20 Finally yf I do that I wolde not then is it not I that doo it but synne that dwelleth in me doeth it.

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22 I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

23 But I se another lawe in my membres rebellinge agaynst the lawe of my mynde and subduynge me vnto the lawe of synne which is in my membres.

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

24 O wretched man yt I am: who shall delyver me fro this body of deeth?

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then I my silfe in my mynde serve the lawe of God and in my flesshe the lawe of synne.

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.