CHAP. 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?
2 For the woman who hath an 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.
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.
4 Therefore, 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.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death. [1]
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. [2]
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. 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. [3]
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For apart from the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive apart from 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 to death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me .
12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do. [4]
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to 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 which 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? [5]
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.
CHAP. 8.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: [6]
4 That the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For they that are according to the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [7] [8]
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. [9]
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. [10]
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
- ↑ motions: Gr. passions
- ↑ that being...: or, being dead to that
- ↑ lust: or, concupiscence
- ↑ allow: Gr. know
- ↑ the body...: or, this body of death
- ↑ for sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin
- ↑ to be carnally...: Gr. the minding of the flesh
- ↑ to be spiritually...: Gr. the minding of the Spirit
- ↑ the carnal...: Gr. the minding of the flesh
- ↑ by: or, because of
