7:1Or are you ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law has lordship over a man for as long a time as he lives? 7:2For the woman who is under a husband, while the husband lives, is bound to the law: but if her husband has died, she is released from the law of the husband. 7:3Therefore, while the husband lives, she will be called an adulteress if she has been with another man: but if her husband has died, she has been freed from the law of the husband, so that she is not an adulteress if she has been with another man. 7:4And so, my brothers, you too have been put to death to the law through the body of Christ: so that you may belong to another, who rose from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God.
7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members, so that they bore fruit to death. 7:6But now we have been released from the law of death, in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. 7:7What then shall we say? 7:7Is the law sin? 7:7Far from it. 7:7But I did not know sin, except through the law: for I was not knowing desire, unless the law were saying: "You shall not desire." 7:8But, occasion having been taken, sin through the commandment worked in me every desire.
7:8For without the law sin was dead. 7:9And I was living without the law once: but when the commandment had come, sin came to life again. 7:10And I died: and the commandment, which was for life, was found for me to be for death. 7:11For sin, occasion having been taken through the commandment, led me astray, and through it killed me. 7:12And so the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:13Has that which is good, then, become death for me? 7:13Far from it. 7:13But sin, so that it might appear as sin, through what is good worked death for me: so that sin might become sinning beyond measure through the commandment.
7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15For what I work, I do not understand: for not the good that I want, this I do: but the evil that I hate, that I do. 7:16But if what I do not want, that I do: I agree with the law, that it is good. 7:17But now it is no longer I who work it, but the sin which dwells in me. 7:18For I know that there does not dwell in me, that is in my flesh, good. 7:18For to will lies at hand for me: but to accomplish the good, I do not find.
7:19For not the good that I want, this I do: but the evil that I do not want, this I do. 7:20But if what I do not want, that I do: it is no longer I who work it, but what dwells in me, sin. 7:21I find therefore a law, for me wishing to do good, that evil lies at hand for me: for I delight together in the law of God according to the inner man: but I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and making me captive in the law of sin, which is in my members. 7:24Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from the body of this death?
7:25The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 7:25Therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin.