Romans 7

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

ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law, ) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?

2 For the woman who hath a husband, is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.

For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.

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

She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.

4 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 to God.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

5 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 to death:

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? By no means. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

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

For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

10 And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] to death.

And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death.

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

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. 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.

Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good in itself, was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.

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

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

15 For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.

For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that [it is] good.

But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me.

18 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.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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

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

20 Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.

22 For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:

For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:

23 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.

but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

25 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.

I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.