Rom 7:6-24 | ESV | STEP | But now we are released from the law , having died to that which held us captive , so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code .

Romans 7:6-24

6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the ^anew way of ^bthe Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. ^{▼▼Greek of the letter}

The Law and Sin

7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, ^dI would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if ^ethe law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, ^fseizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. ^gFor apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment ^hthat promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, ⁱseizing an opportunity through the commandment, ^jdeceived me and through it killed me. 12 So ^kthe law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, ^lsold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For ^mI do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with ⁿthe law, that it is good. 17 So now ^oit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells ^pin me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 ^qFor I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, ^rit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For ^sI delight in the law of God, ^tin my inner being, 23 but I see in my members ^uanother law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ^vthis body of death?