Romans 7 — DBY
7Verse 1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?Verse 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:Verse 3so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.Verse 4So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to°God.Verse 5For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;Verse 6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.Verse 7What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;Verse 8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.Verse 9But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.Verse 10And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:Verse 11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].Verse 12So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Verse 13Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.Verse 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.Verse 15For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.Verse 16But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.Verse 17Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.Verse 18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.Verse 19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.Verse 20But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.Verse 21I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.Verse 22For I delight in the law of°God according to the inward man:Verse 23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.Verse 24O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?Verse 25I thank°God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve°God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.