Romans 7 - Interlinear Bible
Believers United to Christ
1
Or do you not
know,
brethren (for I am
speaking to those who
know the
law ), that the
law has jurisdiction over a
person as
long as he
lives ?
2
For the
married woman is
bound by
law to her
husband while he is
living ; but
if her
husband dies, she is
released from the
law concerning the
husband.
3
So then,
if while her
husband is
living she is
joined to
another man, she shall be
called an
adulteress ; but
if her
husband dies, she is
free from the
law, so that she is not an
adulteress though she is
joined to
another man.
4
Therefore, my
brethren, you
also were
made to
die to the
Law through the
body of
Christ,
so that you might be
joined to
another, to Him who was
raised from the
dead, in
order that we might
bear fruit for
God.
5
For
while we were in the
flesh, the
sinful passions, which were aroused by the
Law, were at
work in the
members of our body to
bear fruit for
death.
6
But
now we have been
released from the
Law, having
died to that by
which we were
bound,
so that we
serve in
newness of the
Spirit and not in
oldness of the
letter.
7
What shall we
say then ? Is the
Law sin ? May it
never be! On the
contrary, I would not have come to
know sin except through the
Law ; for I would not have
known about coveting if the
Law had not
said, " YOU SHALL NOT
COVET."
9
I was
once alive apart from the
Law ; but when the
commandment came,
sin became alive and I
died ;
10
and
this commandment, which was to
result in
life,
proved to
result in
death for me;
13
Therefore did that
which is
good become a cause of
death for me? May it
never be!
Rather it was
sin, in
order that it might be
shown to be
sin by
effecting my
death through that
which is
good,
so that
through the
commandment sin would
become utterly sinful.
The Conflict of Two Natures
14
For we
know that the
Law is
spiritual, but I
am of
flesh,
sold into bondage to
sin.
15
For
what I am
doing, I do not
understand ; for I am not
practicing what I would
like to do, but I am
doing the
very thing I
hate.
16
But
if I
do the
very thing I do not
want to do, I
agree with the
Law, confessing that the
Law is
good.
17
So now,
no longer am I the one
doing it, but
sin which
dwells in me.
18
For I
know that
nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my
flesh ; for the
willing is
present in me, but the
doing of the
good is not.
19
For the
good that I
want, I do not
do, but I
practice the
very evil that I do not
want.
20
But
if I am
doing the
very thing I do not
want, I am
no longer the one
doing it, but
sin which
dwells in me.
21
I
find then the
principle that
evil is
present in me, the one who
wants to
do good.
22
For I
joyfully concur with the
law of
God in the
inner man,
23
but I
see a
different law in the
members of my body,
waging war against the
law of my
mind and
making me a
prisoner of the
law of
sin which is in my
members.
24
Wretched man that I am!
Who will
set me
free from the
body of
this death ?
25
Thanks be to
God through Jesus Christ our
Lord !
So then, on the
one hand I
myself with my
mind am
serving the
law of
God, but on the
other, with my
flesh the
law of
sin.
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