Romans 7

1 Remember ye not brethren (I speake to them yt know the lawe) how that the lawe hath power over a man as longe as it endureth?

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?

2 For the woman which is in subieccion to a man is bounde by the lawe to the man as longe as he liveth. Yf the man be deed she is lowsed from the lawe of the man.

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.

3 So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.

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.

4 Even so ye my brethren are deed concerninge the lawe by the body of Christ yt ye shuld be coupled to another (I meane to him that is rysen agayne fro deeth) that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto God.

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.

5 For when we were in the flesshe the lustes of synne which were stered vppe by ye lawe raygned in oure membres to bringe forth frute vnto deeth.

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.

6 But now are we delivered fro the lawe and deed fro that whervnto we werein bondage that we shuld serve in a newe conversacion of ye sprete and not in ye olde conversacion of the letter.

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 What shall we saye then? is ye lawe synne? God forbid: but I knewe not what synne meant but by the lawe. For I had not knowne what lust had meant excepte the lawe had sayde thou shalt not lust.

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.”

8 But synne toke an occasion by the meanes of the commaundement and wrought in me all manner of concupiscece. For with out the lawe synne was deed.

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

9 I once lived with out lawe. But when the commaundement came synne revyved and I was deed.

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

10 And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.

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

11 For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe we.

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

12 Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.

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

13 Was that then which is good made deeth vnto me? God forbyd. Naye synne was deeth vnto me that it myght appere how that synne by the meanes of that which is good had wrought deeth in me: that synne which is vnder the commandemet myght be out of measure synfull.

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.

14 For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne

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

15 because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

16 Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

17 So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.

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

18 For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.

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.

19 For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

20 Finally yf I do that I wolde not then is it not I that doo it but synne that dwelleth in me doeth it.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.

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

22 I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.

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

23 But I se another lawe in my membres rebellinge agaynst the lawe of my mynde and subduynge me vnto the lawe of synne which is in my membres.

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 O wretched man yt I am: who shall delyver me fro this body of deeth?

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

25 I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then I my silfe in my mynde serve the lawe of God and in my flesshe the lawe of synne.

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.