Romans 7

Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those knowing the law), that the law is lord of the man for as long as he lives? \*

For the married woman remains bound by law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of the husband.

So then, the husband being alive, if she becomes {married} to another husband, she will be titled an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become {married} to another husband. \*

So then, my brothers, you yourselves were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that you might become {married} to another, to the one having been raised from dead ones, in order that we might produce fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that {were} through the law were working in our members to produce fruit for death. \*

But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were being held, so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. \*

What then will we say? {Is} the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin, if not through the law. For I would not have known the covetousness unless the law said, “You will not covet.”

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, produced all covetousness in me. For apart from law, sin {is} dead. \*

Now at one time I was alive without law, but the commandment having come, sin came to life again,

and I died. And the commandment that {was} for life, it was found {to be} for death to me. \*

For sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it, killed {me}.

So then, the law {is} indeed holy, and the commandment {is} holy and righteous and good. \*

Therefore, did what {is} good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, in order that it might be shown {to be} sin through what {is} good, producing death in me so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I myself am fleshly, sold into slavery under sin. \*

For what I produce, I do not understand. For what I do not want, this I practice. But what I hate, this I do.

But if what I do not want, this I do, I agree with the law that {it is} good. \*

But now no longer I myself produce it, but the sin living in me!

For I know that there does not live in me, (that is, in my flesh), good. For the wanting is present in me, but the producing of the good {is} not. \*

For I do not do the good I want; but the evil I do not want, this I practice.

Now if what I do not want, this I do, I myself no longer produce it, but the sin living in me.

I find, then, this law in me, the one wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. \*

For I delight in the law of God with the inner man.

But I see a different law in my members fighting against the law of my mind and taking me captive by the law of the sin that exists in my members. \*

I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me from the body of this death?

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve with the mind the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. \*