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? (7:1)

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 (7:2)

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 (7:3)

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. (7:4) 04

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. (7:5) 04

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. (7:6) 68 04

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 (7:7)

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead (7:8)

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

And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death (7:10)

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me] (7:11)

Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good (7:12)

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 (7:13)

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin (7:14)

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I (7:15)

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good (7:16)

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me (7:17)

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 (7:18)

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do (7:19)

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me (7:20)

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (7:21)

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (7:22)

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 (7:23)

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

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 (7:25)

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