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CHAPTER 7.
1 KNOW you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that
know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?
2 For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her
husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband.
3 Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be
called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead,
she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress,
if she be with another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to
the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen
again from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto
death.
6 But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein
we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if
the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought
in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 And I lived some time without the law. But when the
commandment came, sin revived,
10 And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to
life, the same was found to be unto death to me.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced
me, and by it killed me.
12 Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the
commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death
in me; that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am
carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I work, I understand not. For I do
not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do.
16 If then I do that which I will not, I consent to 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 there dwelleth not in me, that is to
say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to
accomplish that which is good, I find not.
19 For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil
which I will not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I
that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that when I have a will to do
good, evil is present with me.
22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to
the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, fighting
against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my
members.
24 Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?
25 The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh,
the law of sin.
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