Rm 7:1An ignōrātis, frātrēs (scientibus enim lēgem loquor), quia lēx in homine dominātur quantō tempore vīvit?Or 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? Rm 7:2Nam quae sub virō est mulier, vīvente virō, alligāta est lēgī: sī autem mortuus fuerit vir ejus, solūta est ā lēge virī.For 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. Rm 7:3Igitur, vīvente virō, vocābitur adultera sī fuerit cum aliō virō: sī autem mortuus fuerit vir ejus, līberāta est ā lēge virī, ut nōn sit adultera sī fuerit cum aliō virō.Therefore, 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. Rm 7:4Itaque frātrēs meī, et vōs mortificātī estis lēgī per corpus Chrīstī: ut sītis alterīus, quī ex mortuīs resurrēxit, ut frūctificēmus Deō.And 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.
Rm 7:5Cum enim essēmus in carne, passiōnēs peccātōrum, quae per lēgem erant, operābantur in membrīs nostrīs, ut frūctificārent mortī.For 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. Rm 7:6Nunc autem solūtī sumus ā lēge mortis, in quā dētinēbāmur, ita ut serviāmus in novitāte spīritūs, et nōn in vetustāte litterae.But 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. Rm 7:7Quid ergō dīcēmus?What then shall we say? Rm 7:7Lēx peccātum est?Is the law sin? Rm 7:7Absit.Far from it. Rm 7:7Sed peccātum nōn cognōvī, nisi per lēgem: nam concupīscentiam nesciēbam, nisi lēx dīceret: Nōn concupīscēs.But I did not know sin, except through the law: for I was not knowing desire, unless the law were saying: "You shall not desire." Rm 7:8Occāsiōne autem acceptā, peccātum per mandātum operātum est in mē omnem concupīscentiam.But, occasion having been taken, sin through the commandment worked in me every desire.
Rm 7:8Sine lēge enim peccātum mortuum erat.For without the law sin was dead. Rm 7:9Ego autem vīvēbam sine lēge aliquandō: sed cum vēnisset mandātum, peccātum revīxit.And I was living without the law once: but when the commandment had come, sin came to life again. Rm 7:10Ego autem mortuus sum: et inventum est mihi mandātum, quod erat ad vītam, hoc esse ad mortem.And I died: and the commandment, which was for life, was found for me to be for death. Rm 7:11Nam peccātum occāsiōne acceptā per mandātum, sēdūxit mē, et per illud occīdit.For sin, occasion having been taken through the commandment, led me astray, and through it killed me. Rm 7:12Itaque lēx quidem sāncta, et mandātum sānctum, et jūstum, et bonum.And so the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Rm 7:13Quod ergō bonum est, mihi factum est mors?Has that which is good, then, become death for me? Rm 7:13Absit.Far from it. Rm 7:13Sed peccātum, ut appāreat peccātum, per bonum operātum est mihi mortem: ut fīat suprā modum peccāns peccātum per mandātum.But 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.
Rm 7:14Scīmus enim quia lēx spīrituālis est: ego autem carnālis sum, vēnundatus sub peccātō.For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin. Rm 7:15Quod enim operor, nōn intelligō: nōn enim quod volō bonum, hoc agō: sed quod ōdī malum, illud faciō.For 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. Rm 7:16Sī autem quod nōlō, illud faciō: cōnsentiō lēgī, quoniam bona est.But if what I do not want, that I do: I agree with the law, that it is good. Rm 7:17Nunc autem jam nōn ego operor illud, sed quod habitat in mē peccātum.But now it is no longer I who work it, but the sin which dwells in me. Rm 7:18Sciō enim quia nōn habitat in mē, hoc est in carne meā, bonum.For I know that there does not dwell in me, that is in my flesh, good. Rm 7:18Nam velle, adjacet mihi: perficere autem bonum, nōn inveniō.For to will lies at hand for me: but to accomplish the good, I do not find.
Rm 7:19Nōn enim quod volō bonum, hoc faciō: sed quod nōlō malum, hoc agō.For not the good that I want, this I do: but the evil that I do not want, this I do. Rm 7:20Sī autem quod nōlō, illud faciō: jam nōn ego operor illud, sed quod habitat in mē, peccātum.But if what I do not want, that I do: it is no longer I who work it, but what dwells in me, sin. Rm 7:21Inveniō igitur lēgem, volentī mihi facere bonum, quoniam mihi malum adjacet: condēlector enim lēgī Deī secundum interiōrem hominem: videō autem aliam lēgem in membrīs meīs, repugnantem lēgī mentis meae, et captīvantem mē in lēge peccātī, quae est in membrīs meīs.I 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. Rm 7:24Īnfēlīx ego homō, quis mē līberābit dē corpore mortis hujus?Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from the body of this death?
Rm 7:25Grātia Deī per Jēsum Chrīstum Dominum nostrum.The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rm 7:25Igitur ego ipse mente serviō lēgī Deī: carne autem, lēgī peccātī.Therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin.