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 law), that the law has authority over someone 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 example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.

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 should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress 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 were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce 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.

Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to 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 we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.

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.

So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must 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 the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.

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

Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came 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.

Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.

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

Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.

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

So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and 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.

So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely 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 fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin

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

—you see, I do not understand what I am doing: I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate!

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

But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

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

So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.

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.

Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I do not find how to perform the good.

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

Because I do not do the good that I want to do; rather I practice the evil that 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.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me.

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

So I find this ‘law’: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

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

I joyfully agree with God's law according to the inner man,

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 a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.

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

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver 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.

I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, sin's law.