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Romans 7

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1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
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 that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the 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 the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined 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 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might 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 sinful passions which were through the law, worked 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 have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in 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 will we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall 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, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is 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 I was alive apart from 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 The commandment, which was to life, this 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, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin 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 fleshly, sold under sin.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; 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 But if what I don't desire, that I do, 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 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells 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, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
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 which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
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 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells 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 the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
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 God's law after the inward man,
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under 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 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of 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 I of myself with the mind, indeed 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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