Romans 7

1 Or do not 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?

Know ye not, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who are acquainted with the Law, ) that the Law hath dominion over a man only as long as he liveth?

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.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is released from the law which bound her to him.

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.

So then, if while her husband is living she connect herself with another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband die, she is no longer bound by that law, so that she will not be an adulteress, though she connect herself with another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

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.

But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, “Thou shalt not covet.”

8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.

9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;

10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

and the very commandment whose design was life, I found to issue in death.

11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity, deceived me through the commandment, and through it slew me.

12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.

So that the Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and right, and good.

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, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

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

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, a slave sold to sin.

15 For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know not what I do. For I do not what I would, but I do what I hate.

16 But if what I do not desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

But if I do what I would not, I assent to the Law that it is good.

17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Now, however, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I do not find it doing that which is good.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

But if I do what I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

I find then that there is a law to me, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

For I delight in the Law of God, as to the inward man;

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.

but I perceive 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 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Wretched man that I am! Who will 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 God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Thanks be to God, [[who hath delivered me]] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.