Rom 7:1. I know that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives.
Rom 7:2. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3. And if while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress although she is married to another man.
Rom 7:4. Therefore, I also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and I am married to another – to Him who was raised from the dead, and I bear fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5. For when I was in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in my members to bear fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6. But now I have been delivered from the law, that being dead, in which I was held; I should serve in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. I therefore serve God in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Rom 7:7. The law is not sin, but I would not have known sin, if the law had not made it known. For I would not have known lust if the law had not said, Thou shall not covet.
Rom 7:8. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, created in me all manner of concupiscence and evil cravings. For without the law, sin was dead.
Rom 7:9. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Rom 7:11. For sin, taking advantage of the commandment, deceived me and by the commandment slew me.
Rom 7:12. And truly, the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:13. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might indeed appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Rom 7:14. For I know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal (in my flesh), sold under sin.
Rom 7:15. For that which I do I don’t understand. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate is what I do.
Rom 7:16. If then I do that which I don’t want, I agree with the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Rom 7:18. For I know that in my flesh dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I don’t know.
Rom 7:19. For the good that I want to do, I don’t do: but the evil that I don’t want to do, that’s what I do.
Rom 7:20. Now if I do what I don’t want to do, it is no more I that does it, but sin that dwells in my flesh.
Rom 7:21. I find then a law, that, when I do good, evil is still present with me.
Rom 7:22. For I delight in the law of God in the inner man
Rom 7:23. But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25. I thank God that He has delivered me from the body of death through Jesus Christ my Lord. So then with the mind and heart, I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.