Romans:7
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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But sin ,
taking occasion by the commandment ,
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence .
For without the law sin was dead .
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For I was alive without the law once :
but when the commandment came ,
sin revived ,
and I died .
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And the commandment ,
which was ordained to life ,
I found to be unto death .
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For sin ,
taking occasion by the commandment ,
deceived me ,
and by it slew me .
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Wherefore the law is holy ,
and the commandment holy ,
and just ,
and good .
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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 .
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For we know that the law is spiritual :
but I am carnal ,
sold under sin .
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For that which I do I allow not :
for what I would ,
that do I not ;
but what I hate ,
that do I .
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If then I do that which I would not ,
I consent unto the law that it is good .
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Now then it is no more I that do it ,
but sin that dwelleth in me .
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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 .
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For the good that I would I do not :
but the evil which I would not ,
that I do .
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Now if I do that I would not ,
it is no more I that do it ,
but sin that dwelleth in me .
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I find then a law ,
that ,
when I would do good ,
evil is present with me .
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man :
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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 .
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O wretched man that I am !
who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?
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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 .