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Romans, Chapter 7
1 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? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to herahusband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the lawbconcerning 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 made to die to the Law through 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 in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work incthe members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of thedSpirit and not in oldness of the letter. | |
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin exceptethrough the Law; for I would not have known aboutfcoveting if the Law had not said, “YOU SHALL NOTgCOVET.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in mehcoveting of every kind; for apartifrom the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apartjfrom the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which waskto result in life, provedlto result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. | |
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, soldminto bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what 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 the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no 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 flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the 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, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. | |
21 I find then thenprinciple that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of Godoin the inner man, 23 but I see a different law inpthe members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisonerqof the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free fromrthe body of this death? 25 Thanks 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 the law of sin. |
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