Romans 7

1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, 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 to God.

5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

6 But now, having died to what 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 then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13 Has that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot discover how to carry it out.

19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

1 ¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.

3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

7 ¶ What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 ¶ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 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 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 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.

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak unto them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over man all the days of his life?

2 For a woman that is under a man, while the man liveth, she is bound by the law: but if the man die, she is loosed from the law concerning the man.

3 Now if she be with another man, because the man liveth, she is called an adulteress: but if the man die, she is free from the law, that she be not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

4 So also, my brethren, ye are put to death by the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be with another, even with him which is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto GOD.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin, which were stirred up by the law, were strong in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now are we loosed from the law, and are dead unto it which held us captive; that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Be it far from me! But I knew not sin without the law. For I knew nothing of lust, where the law had not said, Be not lascivious.

8 And sin took occasion in the commandment, and provoked me to all manner of lusts. For without the law sin was dead.

9 But I lived about without the law. But when the commandment came, sin was alive again.

10 And I died, and it came to pass that the commandment which was given me for life was unto death.

11 For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and slew me by that same commandment.

12 The law is ever holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Is then that which is good become a death unto me? Be it far from me! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, hath by that which is good wrought death for me, that sin might become exceeding sinful by the commandment.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For I know not what I do: for I do not what I will, but what I hate, that do I.

16 But if I do that which I would not, I consent that the law be good.

17 I do not therefore these things, but sin which dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. I can will, but I cannot do what is good,

19 For the good that I would, that do I not: but the evil that I would not, that do I.

20 But if I do that which I would not, I do not that thing, but sin which dwelleth in me.

21 Now therefore find me a law, that I may do good, that I may do evil.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.

23 But I see another law in my members, which is contrary to the law in my mind, and taketh me captive to the law of sin, which is in my limbs.

24 I wretched man, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I serve the law of God with my mind, but the law of sin with my flesh.