Romans:7

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* Know (note :)By expounding the similitude of marriage , he compares together the state of man both before and after regeneration . The law of matrimony , he says , is this , that as long as the husband lives , the marriage remains binding , but if he is dead , the woman may marry again .(:note ) 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 ? * For the woman which is in subiection to a man , is bound by the Lawe to the man , while he liueth : but if the man bee dead , shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man . * So then if , while [her ] husband liveth , she be married to another man , she shall be (note :)That is , she will be an adulteress , by the consent and judgment of all men .(:note ) 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 . * * * But now we are delivered from the law , that (note :)As if he said , «The bond which bound us is dead , and has disappeared , in as much that the sin which held us does not have anything to hold us with now .»(:note ) being dead For this husband is within us . wherein we were Satan is an unjust possessor , for he deceitfully brought us into bondage to sin and himself : and yet nonetheless , as long as we are sinners , we sin willingly . held ; that we should serve in As is appropriate for those who , after the death of their old husband , are joined to the Spirit , the ones whom the Spirit of God has made new men . newness of spirit , and not [in ] the oldness of the By the letter he means the law , with respect to that old condition : for before our will is shaped by the Holy Spirit , the law speaks but to deaf men , and therefore it is dumb and dead to us , with regard to the fulfilling of it . letter . * * But sin , taking occasion by the commandment , wrought in me all manner of concupiscence . For without the law sin [was ] (note :)Though sin is in us , yet it is not known as sin , neither does it rage in the same way that it rages after the law is known .(:note ) dead . * * But I died : and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life , was found to be vnto me vnto death . * For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement , and deceiued me , and thereby slewe me . * * * * * If I doe then that which I woulde not , I consent to the Lawe , that it is good . * Now then it is no more I that do it , but (note :)That natural corruption , which adheres strongly even to those that are regenerated , and is not completely gone .(:note ) sin that dwelleth in me . * * For I doe not the good thing , which I would , but the euil , which I would not , that do I . * Nowe if I do that I would not , it is no more I that doe it , but the sinne that dwelleth in me . * * For I delight in the law of God after the (note :)The inner man and the new man are the same , and are compared and contrasted with the old man ; and neither do these words «inward man » signify man 's mind and reason , and the «old man » the physical body that is subject to them , as the philosophers imagine : but by the outward man is meant whatever is either without or within a man from top to bottom , as long as that man is not born again by the grace of God .(:note ) inward man : * But I see another law in my members , warring against the law of my (note :)The law of the mind in this place is not to be understood as referring to the mind as it is naturally , and as our mind is from our birth , but of the mind which is renewed by the Spirit of God .(:note ) mind , and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members . * * I (note :)He recovers himself , and shows us that he rests only in Christ .(:note ) thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord . So then with the mind I This is the true perfection of those that are born again , to confess that they are imperfect . myself serve the law of God ; but with the flesh the law of sin .

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