²For 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.

³Therefore, 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.

⁴Therefore, 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.

⁵For 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.

⁶But 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.

⁷What 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.

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

⁹And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

¹⁰And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

¹²Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good.

¹³Was 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.

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

¹⁵For 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.

¹⁶If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

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

¹⁸For 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.

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

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

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

²²For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

²³But 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.

²⁴Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁵The 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.

Chapter 8

There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

²For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

⁴That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

⁵For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things that are of the spirit.

⁶For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

⁷Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

⁸And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹⁰And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

¹¹And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

¹²Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.

¹³For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

¹⁴For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

¹⁵For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).

¹⁶For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

¹⁷And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us.

¹⁹For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁰For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

²¹Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

²²For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

²³And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

²⁴For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

²⁵But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

²⁶Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings,

²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth: because he asketh for the saints according to God.

²⁸And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

³⁰And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

³²He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

³³Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

³⁴Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

³⁵Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

³⁶(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

³⁷But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

³⁸For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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