Romans 7
1 Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
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?
2 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
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.
3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
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.
4 So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
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.
5 For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
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.
6 But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
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.
7 What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."
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.
8 Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.
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.
9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
I once lived with out lawe. But when the commaundement came synne revyved and I was deed.
10 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.
11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe we.
12 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.
13 Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.
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.
14 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne
15 For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
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.
19 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.
20 But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.
Finally yf I do that I wolde not then is it not I that doo it but synne that dwelleth in me doeth it.
21 I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.
I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.
23 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.
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.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
O wretched man yt I am: who shall delyver me fro this body of deeth?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.
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.
