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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. |
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