Romans 7

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? ²For ^athe woman ^bwhich hath a 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 the husband. ³So then ^cif, 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. ⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also ^dare become dead to the law ^eby the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that ^fwe should bring forth fruit unto God. ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work ^gin our members ^hto bring forth fruit ⁱunto death. ⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve ^kin newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? ^lGod forbid. Nay, ^mI had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, ⁿThou shalt not covet. ⁸But sin, ^mtaking ^ooccasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For ^pqwithout the law sin was dead. ⁹For I was alive ^qwithout the law once: but when the commandment came, sin ^rrevived, and I died. ¹⁰And the commandment, ^swhich was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking ^ooccasion by the commandment, ^tdeceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²Wherefore ^uthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and ^xjust, and ^ygood. ¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? ^lGod 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.

¹⁴For we know that the law is ^zspiritual: but I am ^zcarnal, ^asold under sin. ¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for ^bwhat I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. ¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto ^cthe law that it is good. ^17dNow then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ¹⁸For I know that ^ein me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: ^bfor to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ¹⁹For ^bthe good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ^20dNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ²²For ^fI delight in the law of God after ^gthe inward man: ²³but I see ^hanother law in ⁱmy members, ^kwarring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the ^lbody of this death? ^25mI 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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