Romans:7

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* Or do you not know , brethren (for I speak to those who know the Law ), that the Law has dominion over a man as long as he lives ? * For the woman who has a husband is bound by the Law to her husband as long as he lives . But if the husband dies , she is released from the law of her husband . * So then if , while her husband lives , she becomes another man ’s , she will be called an adulteress ; but if her husband dies , she is free from that law , so that she is no adulteress , though she becomes another man ’s . * Therefore , my brethren , you also have become dead to the Law through the body of Christ , that you may become Another ’s ; to Him who was raised from the dead , that we should bear fruit unto God . * For when we were in the flesh , the passions of sin which were through the Law were at work in our members to bear fruit unto death . * But now we have been loosed from the Law , having died to that in which we were held , so that we should serve in the newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter . * What shall we say then ? Is the Law sin ? Let it not be ! On the contrary , I would not have understood sin except through the Law . For I would not have known lust unless the Law had said , You shall not covet . * But sin , taking occasion through the commandment , produced in me every lust . For apart from the Law sin is dead . * I was alive once apart from the Law , but when the commandment came , sin revived and I died . * And the commandment , which was unto life , I found to be unto death . * For sin , taking occasion through the commandment , deceived me , and through it killed me . * Therefore the Law is holy , and the commandment holy and just and good . * Has then that which is good become death to me ? Let it not be ! But sin , that it might appear to be sin , was producing death in me through what is good , so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful . * For we know that the Law is spiritual , but I am carnal , sold under sin . * For what I am doing , I do not understand . For what I do not wish to do , that I do ; moreover , what I hate , that I do . * If , then , I do what I do not wish to do , I agree with the Law that it is good . * But now , it is no longer I doing it , but sin that dwells in me . * For I know that in me (that is , in my flesh ) nothing good dwells ; for to desire is present with me , but how to perform what is good I do not find . * For the good that I wish to do , I do not do ; but the evil I do not wish to do , that I practice . * Now if I do what I do not wish to do , it is no longer I doing it , but sin that dwells in me . * I find then a law , that evil is present with me , the one desiring to do good . * For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man . * 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 . * O wretched man that I am ! Who will deliver me from the body of this death ? * 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 .

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