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Romans 7

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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?
1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
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.
2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
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.
3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
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.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, 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 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:
5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for 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.
6 But now, by dying to what once 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 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.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] to death.
10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous 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.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to 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.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that [it is] good.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living 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.
18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
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.
23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to 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.
25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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