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Chapter 7
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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? |
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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. |
3
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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. |
4
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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. |
5
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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. |
6
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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. |
7
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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. |
8
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought
in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law
sin was dead. |
9
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died. |
10
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And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I
found to be unto death. |
11
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived
me, and by it slew me. |
12
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy,
and just, and good. |
13
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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. |
14
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal,
sold under sin. |
15
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For that which I do I allow not: for what I would,
that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. |
16
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If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto
the law that it is good. |
17
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
in me. |
18
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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. |
19
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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which
I would not, that I do. |
20
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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. |
21
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil
is present with me. |
22
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: |
23
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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. |
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? |
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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. |
