“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? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.”
“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. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the
commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the
law sin [was] dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which
[was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death. 11 For sin, taking
occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me]. 12
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good. 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.”
“14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not,
I consent unto the law that [it is] good. 17 Now then it is no more I
that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 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. 19 For the good
that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now
if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil
is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man: 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. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death? 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.” (Romans 7:1-25 AV)
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