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What shall we say then ? [
Is ]
the law sin ?
No ,
in no wise .
But ,
I did not know sin except by the law ;
for [
neither ]
would I have known lust if the law did not say ,
Thou shalt not covet .
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Then sin ,
when there was occasion by the commandment ,
wrought in me all manner of lust .
For without the law sin was as if it were dormant .
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So that without the law I lived for some time ;
but when the commandment came ,
sin revived ,
and I died .
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And I found that the [
same ]
commandment ,
which was unto life ,
was mortal [
unto me ].
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For sin ,
having had occasion ,
deceived me by the commandment and by it killed [
me ].
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So the law is truly holy ,
and the commandment holy and just and good .
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Was then that which is good made death unto me ?
No ,
in no wise .
But sin ,
to show itself sin by that which is good ,
worked death in me ,
making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment .
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For we [
now ]
know that the law is spiritual ,
but I am carnal ,
sold unto subjection by sin .
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For that which I do ,
I do not understand ,
and not even the [
good ]
that I desire [
is what ]
I do ;
but what I hate ,
that [
is what ]
I do .
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If then I do that which I do not desire ,
I approve that the law [
is ]
good .
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So that it is no longer I that do it ,
but sin that dwells in me .
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And I know that in me (
that is ,
in my flesh )
dwells no good thing ;
for I have the desire ,
but I am not able to perform that which is good .
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For I do not do the good that I desire ;
but the evil which I do not desire ,
that I do .
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And if I do that which I do not desire ,
I am not working ,
but sin that dwells in me .
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So that ,
desiring to do good ,
I find [
this ]
law :
evil is natural unto me .
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For I delight with the law of God with the inward man ,
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but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind ,
bringing captive unto 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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The grace of God ,
by Jesus ,
the Christ ,
our Lord .
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God ,
but with the flesh the law of sin .: