Rom 7 | NASB2020 | STEP | Or do you not know , brothers and sisters (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, ^abrothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the ^{▼▼Or law}Law), that the ^{▼▼Or law}Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For ^dthe married woman is bound by law to her ^{▼▼Lit living husband; but if}husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ^{▼▼Lit of}concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is alive she ^{▼▼Lit becomes another man’s}gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she ^{▼▼I.e., in marriage; lit becomes another man’s}gives herself to another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were ⁱput to death ^jin regard to the Law ^kthrough the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were ^lin the flesh, the sinful passions, which were ^mbrought to light by the Law, were at work ⁿin ^{▼▼Lit our parts to bear}the parts of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been ^preleased from the Law, having ^qdied to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ^rnewness of ^sthe ^{▼▼Or spirit}Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

7 ^uWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^{▼▼Lit May it never happen!
,} ^wFar from it! On the contrary, ^xI 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, “ ^aaYou shall not ^{▼▼Or lust}covet.” 8 But sin, ^actaking an opportunity ^adthrough the commandment, produced in me ^{▼▼Or lust}coveting of every kind; for ^afapart ^{▼▼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 came to life, and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was ^{▼▼Lit to life
,} ^ajto result in life, proved ^{▼▼Lit to death}to result in death for me; 11 for sin, ^altaking an opportunity ^amthrough the commandment, ^andeceived me, and through it, killed me. 12 ^aoSo 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? ^{▼▼Lit May it never happen!
,} ^aqFar from it! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by bringing about my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

The Conflict of Serving Two Masters

14 For we know that the Law is ^arspiritual, but I am ^asfleshly, ^atsold ^{▼▼Lit under sin
,} ^avinto bondage to sin. 15 For ^awI do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing ^axwhat I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^aythe Law, that the Law is good. 17 But now, ^azno longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my ^baflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For ^bbthe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I do the very thing I do not want, ^bcI am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then ^bdthe ^{▼▼Lit law}principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully agree with the law of God ^{▼▼Or with respect to}in ^bgthe inner person, 23 but I see ^bha different law in ^{▼▼Lit my parts waging}the parts of my body waging war against the ^bjlaw of my mind, and making me a prisoner ^{▼▼Lit in}of ^blthe law of sin, the law which is in ^{▼▼Lit my parts}my body’s parts. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^{▼▼Or this body of death
,} ^bothe body of this ^bpdeath? 25 ^bqThanks 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 ^brthe law of sin.