Sha'ul�s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 7
{7:1} Or don't you know, brothers (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 will we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not!
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." {7:8} But sin, finding occasion through the [1>]mitzvah[<1],
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
[2>]mitzvah[<2] came, sin revived, and I died. {7:10} The
[3>]mitzvah[<3], which was to life, this I found to be to death;
{7:11} for sin, finding occasion through the [4>]mitzvah[<4], deceived
me, and through it killed me. {7:12} So that the law is holy, and the
[5>]mitzvah[<5] holy, and righteous, and good. {7:13} Did then that
which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it
might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is
good; that through the [6>]mitzvah[<6] 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 I of myself with the mind, indeed serve the law of
God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:8} commandment
[2] {7:9} commandment
[3] {7:10} commandment
[4] {7:11} commandment
[5] {7:12} commandment
[6] {7:13} commandment
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