Rom 7 | ABEn | STEP | Or do you not know, brethren, (for to the ones knowing law I speak), that the law dominates the man over as much time as he lives?

Romans 7

CHAPTER 7 Free from the Law

1 Or do you not know, brethren, (for to the ones knowing law I speak), that the law dominates the man over as much time as he lives? 2 For the married woman [³to the ⁴living ⁵husband ¹is tied ²by law]. But if [³should die ¹the ²husband], she is cleared from the law of the husband. 3 Surely then [³living ¹with the ²husband], [²as an adulteress ¹she shall be treated], if she becomes [²man ¹to another]; but if [³should die ¹the ²husband], she is free from the law, for her to not be an adulteress, having become [²man ¹to another]. 4 So that, my brethren, also you were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ; for you to become to another, to the one [²from ³the dead ¹being arisen], that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, the ones through the law exerted energy in our members for the bearing fruit to death. 6 But now we were cleared from the law, having died by which we were held; so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not oldness of contract. 7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it not be. But the sin I knew not, except through the law; for also lust I knew not, except the law said, You shall not lust. 8 [⁴an opportunity ¹But ³taking ²sin] through the commandment, manufactured in me every lust; for separate from the law sin was dead; 9 and I was alive separate from the law at some time or other; [⁴having come ¹but ²the ³commandment], sin was revived, and I died. 10 And [⁵was found ⁶by me ¹the ²commandment ³for ⁴life], for this to be to death. 11 For sin [²opportunity ¹having taken] through the commandment, cheated me, and through it killed me. 12 So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 The thing then good, [³to me ¹has it become ²death]? May it not be. But the sin, that it should appear sin, through the good in me manufacturing death, that [²should become ³excessively ⁴sinful ¹sin] through the commandment. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold under the sin. 15 For what I manufacture, I do not know; for not what I want to do, this I practice; and what I detest, this I do. 16 But if what I do not want to do, this I do, then I assent to the law that it is good. 17 But now, no longer I manufacture it, but it is [²living ³in ⁴me ¹the sin]. 18 For I know that there does not live in me (that is to say in my flesh) good. For the will is present with me, but the manufacturing the good I do not find. 19 [³not do ¹For ⁵which ⁶I want to do ²I do ⁴the good], but [²which ³I do not ⁴want to do ¹the evil], this I do. 20 But if what [²do not ³want to do ¹I], this I do; no longer I manufacture it, but it is [²living ³in ⁴me ¹sin]. 21 I find then the law, in the one wanting in me to do the good, that with me the evil is present. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inside man. 23 But I see another law in my members, undertaking an expedition against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of the sin, to the one being in my members. 24 O miserable man am I. Who shall rescue me from [²body ³of death ¹this]? 25 I give thanks to God because of Jesus Christ our Lord. It is so then, I myself indeed to the mind serve the law of God, but to the flesh the law of sin.