The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 an ignoratis fratres scientibus enim legem loquor quia lex in homine dominatur quanto tempore vivit
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Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
2 nam quae sub viro est mulier vivente viro alligata est legi si autem mortuus fuerit vir soluta est a lege viri
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For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3 igitur vivente viro vocabitur adultera si fuerit cum alio viro si autem mortuus fuerit vir eius liberata est a lege ut non sit adultera si fuerit cum alio viro
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So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.
4 itaque fratres mei et vos mortificati estis legi per corpus Christi ut sitis alterius qui ex mortuis resurrexit ut fructificaremus Deo
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Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
5 cum enim essemus in carne passiones peccatorum quae per legem erant operabantur in membris nostris ut fructificarent morti
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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
6 nunc autem soluti sumus a lege morientes in quo detinebamur ita ut serviamus in novitate spiritus et non in vetustate litterae
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But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 quid ergo dicemus lex peccatum est absit sed peccatum non cognovi nisi per legem nam concupiscentiam nesciebam nisi lex diceret non concupisces
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
8 occasione autem accepta peccatum per mandatum operatum est in me omnem concupiscentiam sine lege enim peccatum mortuum erat
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But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.
9 ego autem vivebam sine lege aliquando sed cum venisset mandatum peccatum revixit
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I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 ego autem mortuus sum et inventum est mihi mandatum quod erat ad vitam hoc esse ad mortem
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And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
11 nam peccatum occasione accepta per mandatum seduxit me et per illud occidit
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
12 itaque lex quidem sancta et mandatum sanctum et iustum et bonum
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Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
13 quod ergo bonum est mihi factum est mors absit sed peccatum ut appareat peccatum per bonum mihi operatum est mortem ut fiat supra modum peccans peccatum per mandatum
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Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14 scimus enim quod lex spiritalis est ego autem carnalis sum venundatus sub peccato
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For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 quod enim operor non intellego non enim quod volo hoc ago sed quod odi illud facio
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For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
16 si autem quod nolo illud facio consentio legi quoniam bona
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If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 nunc autem iam non ego operor illud sed quod habitat in me peccatum
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But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 scio enim quia non habitat in me hoc est in carne mea bonum nam velle adiacet mihi perficere autem bonum non invenio
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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
19 non enim quod volo bonum hoc facio sed quod nolo malum hoc ago
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For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
20 si autem quod nolo illud facio non ego operor illud sed quod habitat in me peccatum
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Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 invenio igitur legem volenti mihi facere bonum quoniam mihi malum adiacet
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I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
22 condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem
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For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
23 video autem aliam legem in membris meis repugnantem legi mentis meae et captivantem me in lege peccati quae est in membris meis
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 infelix ego homo quis me liberabit de corpore mortis huius
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O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 gratia Dei per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum igitur ego ipse mente servio legi Dei carne autem legi peccati
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I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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