7Romans 7

1Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?Select Romans 7:1

2For 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.Select Romans 7:2

3So 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.Select Romans 7:3

4Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.Select Romans 7:4

5For 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.Select Romans 7:5

6But 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.Select Romans 7:6

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.Select Romans 7:7

8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.Select Romans 7:8

9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Select Romans 7:9

10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.Select Romans 7:10

11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.Select Romans 7:11

12Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Select Romans 7:12

13Was then that which is good made death to 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.Select Romans 7:13

14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Select Romans 7:14

15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.Select Romans 7:15

16If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.Select Romans 7:16

17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.Select Romans 7:17

18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.Select Romans 7:18

19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.Select Romans 7:19

20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.Select Romans 7:20

21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.Select Romans 7:21

22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:Select Romans 7:22

23But 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.Select Romans 7:23

24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?Select Romans 7:24

25I 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.Select Romans 7:25