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1 Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth?
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Do you not know, brothers and sisters —for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person's lifetime?
2 For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
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Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
3 Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.
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Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.
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In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
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While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.
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What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
9 And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,
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I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived
10 And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.
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and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.
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For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12 Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good.
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So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
13 Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.
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Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.
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For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.
15 For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.
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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16 If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.
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Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.
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But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
18 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.
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For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
19 For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will not, that I do.
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For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20 Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.
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Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.
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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.
22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:
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For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,
23 But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members.
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but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
24 Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin.
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
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