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Romans 7

Common English Bible CEB

1 Brothers and sisters, I'm talking to you as people who know the Law. Don't you know that the Law has power over someone only as long as he or she lives?

2 A married woman is united with her husband under the Law while he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

3 So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she's committing adultery. But if her husband dies, she's free from the Law, so she won't be committing adultery if she marries someone else.

4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also died with respect to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you could be united with someone else. You are united with the one who was raised from the dead so that we can bear fruit for God.

5 When we were self-centered, the sinful passions aroused through the Law were at work in all the parts of our body, so that we bore fruit for death.

6 But now we have been released from the Law. We have died with respect to the thing that controlled us, so that we can be slaves in the new life under the Spirit, not in the old life under the written Law.

7 So what are we going to say? That the Law is sin? Absolutely not! But I wouldn't have known sin except through the Law. I wouldn't have known the desire for what others have if the Law had not said, Don't desire to take what others have.

8 But sin seized the opportunity and used this commandment to produce all kinds of desires in me. Sin is dead without the Law.

9 I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

10 and I died. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death.

11 Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me.

12 So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13 So did something good bring death to me? Absolutely not! But sin caused my death through something good so that sin would be exposed as sin. That way sin would become even more thoroughly sinful through the commandment.

14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I'm made of flesh and blood, and I'm sold as a slave to sin.

15 I don't know what I'm doing, because I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.

16 But if I'm doing the thing that I don't want to do, I'm agreeing that the Law is right.

17 But now I'm not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it's sin that lives in me.

18 I know that good doesn't live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can't do it.

19 I don't do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don't want to do.

20 But if I do the very thing that I don't want to do, then I'm not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.

21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

22 I gladly agree with the Law on the inside,

23 but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body.

24 I'm a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse?

25 Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I'm a slave to God's Law in my mind, but I'm a slave to sin's law in my body.

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 Don't you realize, brothers and sisters, that laws have power over people only as long as they are alive? (I'm speaking to people who are familiar with Moses' Teachings.)

2 For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, that marriage law is no longer in effect for her.

3 So if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she will be called an adulterer. But if her husband dies, she is free from this law, so she is not committing adultery if she marries another man.

4 In the same way, brothers and sisters, you have died to the laws in Moses' Teachings through Christ's body. You belong to someone else, the one who was brought back to life. As a result, we can do what God wants.

5 While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by Moses' laws, our sinful passions did things that result in death.

6 But now we have died to those laws that bound us. God has broken their effect on us so that we are serving in a new spiritual way, not in an old way dictated by written words.

7 What should we say, then? Are Moses' laws sinful? That's unthinkable! In fact, I wouldn't have recognized sin if those laws hadn't shown it to me. For example, I wouldn't have known that some desires are sinful if Moses' Teachings hadn't said, "Never have wrong desires."

8 But sin took the opportunity provided by this commandment and made me have all kinds of wrong desires. Clearly, without laws sin is dead.

9 At one time I was alive without any laws. But when this commandment came, sin became alive

10 and I died. I found that the commandment which was intended to bring me life actually brought me death.

11 Sin, taking the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and then killed me.

12 So Moses' Teachings are holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.

13 Now, did something good cause my death? That's unthinkable! Rather, my death was caused by sin so that sin would be recognized for what it is. Through a commandment sin became more sinful than ever.

14 I know that God's standards are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin.

15 I don't realize what I'm doing. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.

16 I don't do what I want to do, but I agree that God's standards are good.

17 So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don't do it.

19 I don't do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don't want to do.

20 Now, when I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it. Sin that lives in me is doing it.

21 So I've discovered this truth: Evil is present with me even when I want to do what God's standards say is good.

22 I take pleasure in God's standards in my inner being.

23 However, I see a different standard [at work] throughout my body. It is at war with the standards my mind sets and tries to take me captive to sin's standards which still exist throughout my body.

24 What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body?

25 I thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God's standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin's standards with my corrupt nature.