Romans 7:12,14
Romans 7:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Romans 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:8-12 The Message (MSG)
Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Romans 7:14-16 The Message (MSG)
I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.
Romans 7:12 King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:14 King James Version (KJV)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:14 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
Romans 7:12 New Century Version (NCV)
So the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good.
Romans 7:14 New Century Version (NCV)
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.
Romans 7:12 American Standard Version (ASV)
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 7:14 American Standard Version (ASV)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:12 New International Version (NIV)
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Romans 7:14 New International Version (NIV)
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Romans 7:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control].
Romans 7:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
Romans 7:14 New Living Translation (NLT)
So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
Romans 7:12 The Passion Translation (TPT)
So then, we have to conclude that the problem is not with the law itself, for the law is holy and its commandments are correct and for our good.
Romans 7:14 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For we know that the law is divinely inspired and comes from the spiritual realm, but I am a human being made of flesh and trafficked as a slave under sin’s authority.