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1 Now, dear brothers and sisters —you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living?
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Remember ye not brethren (I speake to them yt know the lawe) how that the lawe hath power over a man as longe as it endureth?
2 For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her.
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For the woman which is in subieccion to a man is bounde by the lawe to the man as longe as he liveth. Yf the man be deed she is lowsed from the lawe of the man.
3 So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.
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So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.
4 So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
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Even so ye my brethren are deed concerninge the lawe by the body of Christ yt ye shuld be coupled to another (I meane to him that is rysen agayne fro deeth) that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto God.
5 When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.
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For when we were in the flesshe the lustes of synne which were stered vppe by ye lawe raygned in oure membres to bringe forth frute vnto deeth.
6 But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
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But now are we delivered fro the lawe and deed fro that whervnto we werein bondage that we shuld serve in a newe conversacion of ye sprete and not in ye olde conversacion of the letter.
7 Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
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What shall we saye then? is ye lawe synne? God forbid: but I knewe not what synne meant but by the lawe. For I had not knowne what lust had meant excepte the lawe had sayde thou shalt not lust.
8 But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
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But synne toke an occasion by the meanes of the commaundement and wrought in me all manner of concupiscece. For with out the lawe synne was deed.
9 At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
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I once lived with out lawe. But when the commaundement came synne revyved and I was deed.
10 and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
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And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.
11 Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
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For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe we.
12 But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
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Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.
13 But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
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Was that then which is good made deeth vnto me? God forbyd. Naye synne was deeth vnto me that it myght appere how that synne by the meanes of that which is good had wrought deeth in me: that synne which is vnder the commandemet myght be out of measure synfull.
14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
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For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne
15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.
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because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.
16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
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Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.
17 So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
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So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.
18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
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For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.
19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
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For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.
20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
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Finally yf I do that I wolde not then is it not I that doo it but synne that dwelleth in me doeth it.
21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
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I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.
22 I love God’s law with all my heart.
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I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.
23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
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But I se another lawe in my membres rebellinge agaynst the lawe of my mynde and subduynge me vnto the lawe of synne which is in my membres.
24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
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O wretched man yt I am: who shall delyver me fro this body of deeth?
25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
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I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then I my silfe in my mynde serve the lawe of God and in my flesshe the lawe of synne.
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