Therefore, my brethren, you
also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be
married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear
fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were
aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now
we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so
that we should
serve in the
newness of the Spirit and not in the
oldness of the letter.
What shall we say then? Is
the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except
through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had
said, “You shall not covet.”
And the commandment, which
was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the
commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and
the commandment holy and just and good.
I find then a law,
that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in
the law of God according to the inward man. 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. O wretched man that I am! Who will
deliver me from this body of death? 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.
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
For we know that
the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I
do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I
hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law
that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in
me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to
will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the
good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I
practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but
sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 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. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 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.
Romans 7
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