Ro 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to
them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long
as he liveth?
Ro 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from
the law of her husband.
Ro 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free
from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to
another man.
Ro 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the
body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Ro 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the
law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Ro 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we
were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness
of the letter.
Ro 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had
said, Thou shalt not covet.
Ro 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner
of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Ro 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.
Ro 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto
death.
Ro 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it
slew me.
Ro 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good.
Ro 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin,
that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that
sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Ro 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin.
Ro 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not;
but what I hate, that do I.
Ro 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it
is good.
Ro 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Ro 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good
I find not.
Ro 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not,
that I do.
Ro 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
Ro 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me.
Ro 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Ro 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
Ro 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?
Ro 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I
myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.