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.

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