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Romans 7

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1 Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man <em>only</em> 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 who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free 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 <em>her</em> husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs 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 Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, <em>even</em> to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto 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 while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not <em>in</em> 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? <em>Is</em> the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for <em>neither</em> would I have known lust if the law did not say, 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 Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.
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 So that without the law I lived for some time; 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 I found that the <em>same</em> commandment, which was unto life, was mortal <em>unto me</em>.
10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed <em>me</em>.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So the law is truly 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 unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.
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 <em>now</em> know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by 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 do not understand, and not even the <em>good</em> that I desire <em>is what</em> I do; but what I hate, that <em>is what</em> 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 do not desire, I approve that the law <em>is</em> good.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
18 And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform 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 I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, 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 And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that 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 So that, desiring to do good, I find <em>this</em> law: evil is natural unto 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 with the law of God with the inward man,
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23 but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto 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 The grace of God, by Jesus, the 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.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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