Romans:7:7-25

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* What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? Let it not be ! But I did not know sin except through law ; for also I did not know lust except the law said , "You shall not lust ." Ex . strkjv @20:17 * But sin taking occasion through the commandment worked every lust in me ; for apart from law , sin is dead . * And I was alive apart from law once , but the commandment came , and sin came alive , and I died . * And the commandment which was to life , this was found to be death to me ; * for sin taking occasion through the commandment deceived me , and through it killed me . * So indeed the law is holy , and the commandment holy and just and good . * Then that which is good , has it become death to me ? Let it not be ! But sin , that it might appear to be sin , having worked out death to me through the good , in order that sin might become excessively sinful through the commandment . * For we know that the law is spiritual , and I am fleshly , having been sold under sin . * For what I work out , I do not know . For what I do not will , this I do . But what I hate , this I do . * But if I do what I do not will , I agree with the law , that it is good . * But now I no longer work it out , but the sin dwelling in me . * For I know that in me , that is in my flesh , dwells no good . For to will is present to me , but to work out the good I do not find . * For what good I desire , I do not do . But the evil I do not desire , this I do . * But if I do what I do not desire , it is no longer I working it out , but sin dwelling in me . * I find then the law , when I desire to do the right , that evil is present with me . * For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man ; * but I see another law in my members having warred against the law of my mind , and taking me captive by the law of sin being in my members . * O wretched man that I am ! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? * I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord ! So then I myself with the mind truly serve the law of God , and with the flesh the law of sin .

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