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ROMANS ยท Chapter 7
7:1 Know all of you 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?
7:2 For the woman which has an 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.
7:3 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.
7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, all of you also are become dead to the
law by the body of Christ; that all of you 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, You shall 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 dwells in me.
7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing:
in order 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 dwells 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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