Romans 7
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.
