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Romans 7:1

Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?

Brethren, do you not know for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

Romans 7:2

For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

Romans 7:3

Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.

So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions made sinful by the Law were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

Romans 7:6

But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

Romans 7:7

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

Romans 7:8

But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.

But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

Romans 7:9

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;

And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

Romans 7:10

And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

Romans 7:11

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

Romans 7:12

Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Romans 7:13

Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me; that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.

Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual the slave, bought and sold, of sin.

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

Romans 7:15

For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do.

For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

Romans 7:16

If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,

But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

Romans 7:17

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.

So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

Romans 7:18

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

Romans 7:19

For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do.

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

Romans 7:20

Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.

But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

Romans 7:21

I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

Romans 7:22

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body the Law of sin.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

Romans 7:24

Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

Romans 7:25

The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I my true self am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.

I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

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