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