New American Standard Bible 1995 NASB95
Wycliffe WYC
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?
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Brethren, whether ye know not; for I speak to men that know the law; for the law hath lordship in a man, as long time as he liveth?
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.
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For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband [soothly if her husband be dead, she is delivered, or unbound, from the law of 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.
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Therefore she shall be called adulteress, if she be with another man, while the husband liveth [Therefore living the man, she shall be called adulteress, if she be with another man]; but if her husband is dead [forsooth if her husband be dead], she is delivered from the law of the husband, that she be not adulteress, if she be with 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.
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And so, my brethren, ye be made dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye be of another, that rose again from death, that ye bear fruit to God. [+Therefore, my brethren, and ye be made dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye be another's, that rose from dead, that we bear fruit to 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.
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For when we were in flesh, passions of sins, that were by the law, wrought in our members, to bear fruit to 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.
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But now we be unbound from the law of death, in which we were held [in which we were holden], so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of 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."
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What therefore shall we say? The law is sin? God forbid [Far be it]. But I knew not sin, but by [the] law; for I knew not that coveting was sin, but for the law said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
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And through occasion taken, sin by the commandment hath wrought in me all covetousness [sin by the commandment hath wrought in me all coveting, or covetousness]; for without the law, sin was dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
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And I lived [Forsooth I lived] without the law sometime; but when the commandment was come, sin lived again. But I was dead,
10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
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and this commandment [and the commandment] that was to life, was found to me, to be to death.
11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
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For sin, through occasion taken by the commandment, deceived me, and by that it slew me [and by it slew me].
12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good.
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.
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Is then that thing that is good, made death to me? God forbid [Far be it]. But sin, that it seem sin, through good thing wrought death to me, that me sin over manner through the commandment [But sin, that it appear sin, through good thing wrought death to me, that there be made sin sinning over manner, or measure, by commandment].
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
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And we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under 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.
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For I understand not that that I work; for I do not the good thing that I will, but I do that evil thing that 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.
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And if I do that thing that I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
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But now I work not it now, but the sin that dwelleth 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.
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But I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good; for will lieth to me (for will lieth before me), but I find not to perform good thing [truly to perform good thing I find not].
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
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For I do not that good thing that I will, but I do that evil thing that I will not.
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.
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And if I do that evil thing that I will not [Soothly if I do that thing that I will not], I work not it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
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Therefore I find the law to me willing to do good thing [Therefore I find a law to me willing to do good thing], for evil thing lieth to me (for evil thing lieth before me).
22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
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For I delight together to the law of God, after 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.
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But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my soul, and making me captive in the law of sin, that is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
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I am an unhappy man [I am a woeful man]; who shall deliver me from the body of this sin?
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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[Forsooth] The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore I myself by the soul serve to the law of God; but by the flesh to the law of sin.