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AICNT ROM Chapter 7

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7 Or do you not know, brothers, for I am speaking to those who know the law, that the law has authority over a person as long as they live? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband. 3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

4 So then, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the law were at work in our members, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! But I would not have known sin except through the law; for I would not have known desire[fn] if the law had not said, “You shall not desire.”[fn] 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of desire; for apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin[fn] came to life 10 and I died. The commandment that was meant to bring life, in fact, brought death. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present with me, but {the doing of the good is not}.[fn] 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand; 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin that is in my members.

24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

25 [[But]][fn] Thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

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