Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 7
{7:1} Or don't you know, [1>]brothers[<1] (for I speak to men who
know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he
lives? {7:2} For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the
husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged
from the law of the husband. {7:3} So then if, while the husband
lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an
adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that
she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. {7:4}
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the
body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was
raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. {7:5}
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through
the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. {7:6}
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in
which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not
in oldness of the letter.
{7:7} What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be!
However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I
wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not
covet."[2] {7:8} But sin, finding occasion through the commandment,
produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is
dead. {7:9} I was alive apart from the law once, but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died. {7:10} The commandment,
which was for life, this I found to be for death; {7:11} for sin,
finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it
killed me. {7:12} Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the
commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
{7:13} Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never
be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me
through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might
become exceeding sinful. {7:14} For we know that the law is spiritual,
but I am fleshly, sold under sin. {7:15} For I don't know what I am
doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that
I do. {7:16} But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the
law that it is good. {7:17} So now it is no more I that do it, but sin
which dwells in me. {7:18} For I know that in me, that is, in my
flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I
don't find it doing that which is good. {7:19} For the good which I
desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I
practice. {7:20} But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more
I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. {7:21} I find then the law,
that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. {7:22} For I
delight in God's law after the inward man, {7:23} but I see a
different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my
members. {7:24} What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of
the body of this death? {7:25} I thank God through Yeshua the Messiah,
our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with
the flesh, the sin's law.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:1} The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may
also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[2] {7:7} Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21
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