Romans

Romans 7 ©

1 No law having power over a person longer than he liveth, 4 we therefore, being become dead to the law by the body of Christ, are left free to place ourselves under a happier dispensation. 5 For the law through the prevalency of corrupt passions could only serve as an instrument of sin unto death; although it be in itself holy, and just, and good; 14 as is manifest by our reason approving the precepts of it, whilst our depraved nature is unable to put them in practice. 24 The wretchedness of man in such a situation, and God's mercy in his deliverance from it through Christ.

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KNOW ye not, abrethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) bhow that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

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For cthe 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.

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dSo then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: ebut if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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Wherefore, my brethren, fye also are become dead to the law gby the body of Christ; that hye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, ithat we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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For when we were jin the flesh, the 1*motions of sins, which were by the law, kdid work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

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lBut now we are delivered from the law, 2that being dead wherein we were held; mthat we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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What shall we say then? nIs the law sin? God forbid. oNay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known 3lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

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But sin, ptaking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all *manner of *concupiscence. qFor without the law sin was dead.

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For rI was alive without the law once: but swhen the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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And the commandment, twhich was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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uFor sin, taking occasion by the commandment, vdeceived me, and by it slew me.

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Wherefore wthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. xBut sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

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For we know that the law is yspiritual: but I am zcarnal, sold under sin.

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aFor that which I do I 4*allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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If then I do that which I would not, bI consent unto the law that it is good.

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Now then cit is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

c v.20,22-25.
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For I know that din me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: efor to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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fFor the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

f v.15-17.
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Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

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I find then a glaw, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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For hI delight in the law of God after ithe inward man:

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But I see janother 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.

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kO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from 5the body of this ldeath?

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mI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with nthe mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.