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Romans 7

Romans 7:1WEB

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

Romans 7:2WEB

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Romans 7:3WEB

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Romans 7:4WEB

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Romans 7:5WEB

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

Romans 7:6WEB

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 7:7WEB

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 7:8WEB

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9WEB

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

Romans 7:10WEB

The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Romans 7:11WEB

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Romans 7:12WEB

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:13WEB

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Romans 7:14WEB

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7:15WEB

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:16WEB

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Romans 7:17WEB

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7:18WEB

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7:19WEB

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

Romans 7:20WEB

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7:21WEB

I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Romans 7:22WEB

For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

Romans 7:23WEB

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:24WEB

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Romans 7:25WEB

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.