Romans:7

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* Do you not know , for I speak to men who know the law , that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives ? * Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives . But if the husband dies , she is discharged from the law of the husband . * So then if , while the husband lives , she is joined to another man , she will be called an adulteress . If the husband dies , she is free from the law , so that she is no adulteress , though she is joined to another man . * Brothers , you also died to the law through the body of Christ ; that you should be joined to another , even to him who was raised from the dead , that we might bring forth fruit to God . * When we were in the flesh , the sinful passions , which were through the law , worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death . * We have been discharged from the law . We have died to that by which we were held . So we serve in newness of the Spirit , and not in oldness of the letter . * What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid ! I had not known sin except through the law . For I had not known coveting except the law had said : You should not covet . * But sin , finding occasion , worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting . Apart from the law sin is dead . * I was alive apart from the law once : but when the commandment came , sin revived , and I died . * The commandment , which was to life , this I found to be to death . * For sin , finding occasion , through the commandment deceived me , and through it killed me . * The law is holy , and the commandment holy , and righteous , and good . * Did that which is good become death to me ? God forbid ! It was sin , producing death in me through what is good . This way sin might be shown to be sin . Through the commandment sin could be recognized . * For we know that the law is spiritual . But I am fleshly and sold under sin . * I do not understand what I am doing . For what I want to do I do not do . What I hate , I do . * But if what I do not want to do , I do , I consent to the law that it is right . * Now then it is no longer I that do it , but the sin that dwells in me . * I know that good does not live in my human nature . For even though the desire to do good is in me , I am not able to do it . * I do not do the good I want to do . Instead , I do the evil that I do not want to do . * If I do what I do not want to do , this means that I am no longer the one who does it . Instead , it is the sin that lives in me . * I find that this law is at work . When I want to do what is good , what is evil is the only choice I have . * My inner person delights in the law of God . * However I see a different law at work in my body . This law fights against the law that my mind approves of . It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body . * Miserable man that I am ! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death ? * Thanks to God , through our Lord Jesus Christ ! So then I can serve God ’s law only with my mind , while my human nature serves the law of sin .

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