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?
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For
without the law sin was dead.
09 For I was alive without the law once: but when
the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to
life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me.
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12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and good.
13 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I
am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I
would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent
unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
18 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.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the
evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I
that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good,
evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the
inward man:
23 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me
from the body of this death?
25 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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