Romans 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?

Or are you ignorant, brothers — to those knowing for law I speak — that the law rules over the man for as long as [the] time he is alive?

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.

The for married woman to the living husband has been bound by law; if however shall die the husband, she has been cleared from the law of the husband.

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.

Then therefore while is living the husband an adulteress she will be called if she shall become [married] to man another; if however shall die the husband, free she is from the law which not to be her an adulteress having become [married] to man another.

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.

Likewise, brothers of mine, also you yourselves were put to death to the law through the body of Christ for to belong you to another, to the [One] out from [the] dead having been raised, so that we may 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.

While for we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that [were] through the law were at work in the members of us to the bringing forth of fruit to 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.

Now however we have been released from the law having died to that which we were bound, in order for to serve us in newness of [the] Spirit and not in oldness of [the] letter.

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.”

What then will we say? [Is] the law sin? Never would it be! But sin not I have known only except through law; then for covetousness not I had known, only except the law was saying; Not you will covet;

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

An occasion however having taken sin through the commandment it produced in me myself all covetousness; apart from for [the] Law sin [is] dead;

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

I myself however was alive apart from law once; when was coming however the commandment the sin revived, I myself then died,

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

And proved to be me the commandment that [was] to life this to death;

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

The for sin an occasion having taken through the commandment deceived me and through it put [me] to death;

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

So indeed the law [is] holy and the commandment [is] holy and righteous 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.

That which then [is] good to me myself (became *N+kO) death? Never would it be! But sin, in order that it may be shown as sin, through that which [is] good to me is working out death, so that may become beyond excess sinful sin through the commandment.

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

We know for that the Law spiritual is, I myself however (fleshly *N+kO) am sold under sin.

15 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.

What for I do not I understand; not for what I want this I do, but what I hate this I do.

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

If now that which not I do want this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good;

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

In that case now no longer no longer I myself am doing it but that which (is dwelling *NK+o) in me myself sin.

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.

I know for that nothing dwells in me myself, That is in the flesh of mine, good; for to wish [to do] is present with me, but to do the good not (find. *K)

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

Not for that I desire I do good, but that not I do want evil this I practice.

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.

If now what not I do want (I myself *NK) this do, no longer no longer I myself who do it but that which is dwelling in me myself sin.

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

I find so the principle that which is desiring me myself to do good that me myself evil is present with.

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

I delight for in the law of God according 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.

I see however another law in the members of mine warring against the law of the mind of mine and making captive me (to *no) the law of sin which is being in the members of mine.

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

O wretched I myself [am] man! Who me will deliver out of the body of death this?

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] *N+KO) (then *no) to God through Jesus Christ the Lord of us! Then so myself I myself with the indeed mind serve law of God but [with] the flesh [the] law of sin.