Rom 7:1Â 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?Â
Rom 7:2Â 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.Â
Rom 7:3Â 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.Â
Rom 7:4Â 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.Â
Rom 7:5Â 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.Â
Rom 7:6Â 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.Â
The Law and Sin
Rom 7:7Â 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.Â
Rom 7:8Â But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.Â
Rom 7:9Â For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Â
Rom 7:10Â And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.Â
Rom 7:11Â For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.Â
Rom 7:12Â Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Â
Rom 7:13Â 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.Â
Rom 7:14Â For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Â
Rom 7:15Â For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.Â
Rom 7:16Â If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.Â
Rom 7:17Â Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.Â
Rom 7:18Â 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.Â
Rom 7:19Â For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.Â
Rom 7:20Â Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.Â
Rom 7:21Â I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.Â
Rom 7:22Â For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:Â
Rom 7:23Â 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.Â
Rom 7:24Â O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?Â
Rom 7:25Â 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.Â
ROMANS 8:1-4
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.