Rom 7 | NASB1995 | STEP | Or do you not know , brethren ( for I am speaking to those who know the law ), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives ?

Romans 7

Believers United to Christ

1 Or do you not know, ^abrethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For ^bthe married woman is bound by law to her ^{▼▼ Lit living husband}husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ^{▼▼ Lit of}concerning the husband. 3 So 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.

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were ^emade to die ^fto the Law ^gthrough 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. 5 For while we were ^hin the flesh, the sinful passions, which were ⁱ aroused by the Law, were at work ^jin ^{▼▼ Lit our members to bear}the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been ^lreleased from the Law, having ^mdied to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ⁿnewness of ^othe ^{▼▼ Or spirit}Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

7 ^qWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^rMay it never be! On the contrary, ^sI would not have come to know sin except ^{▼▼ Or through law}through the Law; for I would not have known about ^{▼▼ Or lust}coveting if the Law had not said, ^v“You shall not ^{▼▼ Or lust} covet.” 8 But sin, ^xtaking opportunity ^ythrough the commandment, produced in me ^{▼▼ Or lust}coveting of every kind; for ^aaapart ^{▼▼ Or from law}from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart ^{▼▼ Or from law}from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was ^{▼▼ Lit to life
,} ^aeto result in life, proved ^{▼▼ Lit to death}to result in death for me; 11 for sin, ^agtaking an opportunity ^ahthrough the commandment, ^aideceived me and through it killed me. 12 ^ajSo then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? ^akMay it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

The Conflict of Two Natures

14 For we know that the Law is ^alspiritual, but I am ^amof flesh, ^ansold ^{▼▼ Lit under sin
,} ^apinto bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, ^aqI do not understand; for I am not practicing ^arwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^asthe Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, ^atno longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my ^auflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For ^avthe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, ^awI am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then ^axthe ^{▼▼ Lit law}principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God ^{▼▼ Or concerning}in ^bathe inner man, 23 but I see ^bba different law in ^{▼▼ Lit my members}the members of my body, waging war against the ^bdlaw of my mind and making me a prisoner ^{▼▼ Lit in}of ^bfthe law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^{▼▼ Or this body of death
,} ^bhthe body of this ^bideath? 25 ^bjThanks 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 ^bkthe law of sin.