Romans 7 - LSB Bible Online

Romans 7

Released from the Law

Or do you not know, ^abrothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is master over a person as long as he lives? 2 For ^athe married woman has been bound by law to her ¹husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ²concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall 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, my brothers, you also were ^amade to die ^bto the Law ^cthrough the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were ^ain the flesh, the sinful passions, which were ^baroused by the Law, were at work ^cin our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been ^areleased from the Law, having ^bdied to that by which we were constrained, so that we serve in ^cnewness of ¹^dthe Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7 ^aWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^bMay it never be! Rather, ^cI would not have come to know sin except ¹through the Law. For I would not have known about ²coveting if the Law had not said, “^dYou shall not ²covet.” 8 But sin, ^ataking opportunity ^bthrough the commandment, worked out in me ¹coveting of every kind. For ^capart ²from the Law sin is dead. 9 Now I was once alive apart ¹from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was ¹^ato lead to life, was found ²to lead to death for me. 11 For sin, ^ataking an opportunity ^bthrough the commandment, ^cdeceived me and through it killed me. 12 ^aSo, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

The Conflict of Two Natures

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? ^aMay it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by working out my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would ¹become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the Law is ^aspiritual, but I am ^afleshly, ^bhaving been sold ¹^cinto bondage under sin. 15 For what I am working out, ^aI do not understand; for I am not practicing ^bwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with ^athe Law, that it is good. 17 So now, ^ano longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my ^aflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. 19 For ^athe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, ^aI am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then ^athe ¹principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God ¹in ^athe inner man, 23 but I see ^aa different law in my members, waging war against the ^blaw of my mind and making me a captive ¹to ^cthe law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ¹^athe body of this ^bdeath? 25 ¹^aThanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh ^bthe law of sin.

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