[[Romans 6|<< Romans 6]] | [[Romans|Romans]] | [[Romans 8|Romans 8 >>]] ### Romans 7 1 KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? ^1 2 For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to _her_ husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of _her_ husband. ^2 3 So then if, while _her_ husband lives, 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. ^3 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. ^4 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. ^5 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. ^6 7 What shall we say then? _Is_ the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. ^7 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin _was_ dead. ^8 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ^9 10 And the commandment, which _was_ _ordained_ to life, I found _to_ _be_ unto death. ^10 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew _me_. ^11 12 Wherefore the law _is_ holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ^12 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. ^13 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. ^14 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. ^15 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that _it_ _is_ good. ^16 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. ^17 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but _how_ to perform that which is good I find not. ^18 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ^19 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. ^20 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ^21 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: ^22 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. ^23 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ^24 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. ^25