Romans:7

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nasb @Romans:7:1 @Or do you not know , brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law ), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives ? nasb @Romans:7:2 @For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living ; but if her husband dies , she is released from the law concerning the husband . nasb @Romans:7:3 @So then , if while her husband is living she is joined to another man , she shall be called an adulteress ; but if her husband dies , she is free from the law , so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man . nasb @Romans:7:4 @Therefore , my brethren , you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ , so that you might be joined to another , to Him who was raised from the dead , in order that we might bear fruit for God . nasb @Romans:7:5 @For while we were in the flesh , the sinful passions , which were aroused by the Law , were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death . nasb @Romans:7:6 @But now we have been released from the Law , having died to that by which we were bound , so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter . nasb @Romans:7:7 @What shall we say then ? Is the Law sin ? May it never be ! On the contrary , I would not have come to know sin except through the Law ; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said , " YOU SHALL NOT COVET ." nasb @Romans:7:8 @But sin , taking opportunity through the commandment , produced in me coveting of every kind ; for apart from the Law sin is dead . nasb @Romans:7:9 @I was once alive apart from the Law ; but when the commandment came , sin became alive and I died ; nasb @Romans:7:10 @and this commandment , which was to result in life , proved to result in death for me ; nasb @Romans:7:11 @for sin , taking an opportunity through the commandment , deceived me and through it killed me . nasb @Romans:7:12 @So then , the Law is holy , and the commandment is holy and righteous and good . nasb @Romans:7:13 @Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me ? May it never be ! Rather it was sin , in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good , so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful . nasb @Romans:7:14 @For we know that the Law is spiritual , but I am of flesh , sold into bondage to sin . nasb @Romans:7:15 @For what I am doing , I do not understand ; for I am not practicing what I would like to do , but I am doing the very thing I hate . nasb @Romans:7:16 @But if I do the very thing I do not want to do , I agree with the Law , confessing that the Law is good . nasb @Romans:7:17 @So now , no longer am I the one doing it , but sin which dwells in me . nasb @Romans:7:18 @For I know that nothing good dwells in me , that is , in my flesh ; for the willing is present in me , but the doing of the good is not . nasb @Romans:7:19 @For the good that I want , I do not do , but I practice the very evil that I do not want . nasb @Romans:7:20 @But if I am doing the very thing I do not want , I am no longer the one doing it , but sin which dwells in me . nasb @Romans:7:21 @I find then the principle that evil is present in me , the one who wants to do good . nasb @Romans:7:22 @For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man , nasb @Romans:7:23 @but I see a different law in the members of my body , waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members . nasb @Romans:7:24 @Wretched man that I am ! Who will set me free from the body of this death ? nasb @Romans:7:25 @Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord ! So then , on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God , but on the other , with my flesh the law of sin .

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