Bible, King James Version
Romans
Rom.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?
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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] 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.
[8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought
in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was
dead.
[9] For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
[10] And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I
found to be unto death.
[11] For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived
me, and by it slew me.
[12] Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy,
and just, and good.
[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.
[14] For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am
carnal, sold under sin.
[15] For that which I do I allow not: for what I would,
that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
[16] If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto
the law that it is good.
[17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me.
[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.
[19] For the good that I would I do not: but the evil
which I would not, that I do.
[20] Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do
it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
[21] I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil
is present with me.
[22] For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man:
[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.
[24] O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?
[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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