Romans 7:1
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Romans 7:2
For the woman who hath a husband, is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
Romans 7:3
So then, if while [her] husband liveth, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Romans 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 to God.
Romans 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 to death:
Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? By no means. 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.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:10
And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] to death.
Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. 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.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:15
For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that [it is] good.
Romans 7:17
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 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.
Romans 7:19
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans 7:20
Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:21
I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:
Romans 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.
Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 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.