Romans 7

1 Or are ye ignorant, brethren, —for unto them that understand the law am I speaking, that, the law, hath lordship over a men as long as he liveth?

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

2 For, the married woman, unto her living husband is bound by law; but, if her husband have died, she hath received a full release from the law of her husband.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

3 Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called—if she become another man’s, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man’s.

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

4 So, then, my brethren, ye also, were made dead unto the law through the body of the Christ, to the end ye might become another’s—his who from among the dead was raised, in order that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But, now, we have received full release from the law, by dying [in that] wherein we used to be held fast, so that we should be doing service—in newness of spirit and not in obsoleteness of letter.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

7 What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! On the contrary, I had not discovered, sin, save through law, for even, of coveting, I had not been aware if, the law, had not kept on saying—Thou shall not covet;

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

8 Howbeit sin taking, occasion—through the commandment, wrought out in me all manner of coveting; for, apart from law, sin is dead; —

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

9 And, I, was alive, apart from law, at one time, but, the commandment coming, sin sprang up to life,

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

10 Whereas, I, died, —and the commandment which was unto life was found by me to be, itself, unto death;

and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:

11 For, sin, —taking occasion—through the commandment, completely deceived me and, through it, slew me:

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

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

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

13 Did, then, that which is good, unto me become death? Far be it! But [it was] sin, that it might appear sin, through that which was good unto me working out death, in order that, exceeding sinful, might sin become through the commandment.

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. 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.

14 For we know that, the law, is spiritual, —I, however, am a creature of flesh, sold under sin;

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

15 For, that which I am working out, I do not approve, —for not, what I wish, the same I practise, but, what I hate, the same I do:

For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

16 Now, if what I wish not the same I do, I consent unto the law that [it is] right.

But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now, however, no longer am, I, working it out, but the, sin, that dwelleth in me:

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

18 I know, in fact, that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, anything good; for, the wishing, lieth near me, but, the working out of what is right, not!

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.

19 For not, the good that I wish, I do, but, the evil that I do not wish, the same I practise.

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

20 Now, if what I wish not, the same, I do, no longer am, I, working it out, but the, sin, that dwelleth in me.

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

21 Hence, I find the law, to me who wish to be doing the right, that, unto me, the wrong lieth near:

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

22 I have, in fact, a sympathetic pleasure in the law of God; according to the inner man.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members: —

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.

24 Wretched, man am, I! Who shall rescue me out of this body doomed to death?

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

25 [But] thanks be unto God!—Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Hence, then, —I myself, with the mind, indeed, am in servitude unto a law of God; but; with the flesh; unto a law of sin.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.