Romans 7
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Released from the Law
1Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is master over a person as long as he lives? 2For the married woman has been bound by law to her #7:2 Lit living husbandhusband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law #7:2 Lit ofconcerning the husband. 3So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
4So, my brothers, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were constrained, so that we serve in newness of #7:6 Or spiritthe Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! Rather, I would not have come to know sin except #7:7 Or through lawthrough the Law. For I would not have known about #7:7 Or lustcoveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not #7:7 Or lustcovet.” 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me #7:8 Or lustcoveting of every kind. For apart #7:8 Or from lawfrom the Law sin is dead. 9Now I was once alive apart #7:9 Or from lawfrom the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died; 10and this commandment, which was #7:10 Lit to lifeto lead to life, was found #7:10 Lit to deathto lead to death for me. 11For sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12So, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
The Conflict of Two Natures
13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by working out my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would #7:13 Or prove to bebecome utterly sinful.
14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold #7:14 Lit under sininto bondage under sin. 15For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good. 17So now, no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me. 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
21I find then the #7:21 Lit lawprinciple that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God #7:22 Or concerningin the inner man, 23but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive #7:23 Lit into the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from #7:24 Or this body of deaththe body of this death? 25#7:25 Lit Grace; with gratitudeThanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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