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| 1Don't you realize, brothers—for I am speaking to people who know the Law—that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive? | 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? |
| 2For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband. | 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. |
| 3So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this Law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man. | 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. |
| 4In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God. | 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. |
| 5For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death. | 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. |
| 6But now we have been released from the Law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old writings. | 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. |
| 7What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet." | 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.” |
| 8But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead. | 8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. |
| 9At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life, | 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. |
| 10and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death. | 10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. |
| 11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me. | 11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. |
| 12So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good. | 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. |
| 13Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before. | 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. |
| 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin. | 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. |
| 15I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate. | 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. |
| 16Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good. | 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. |
| 17As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me. | 17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. |
| 18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out. | 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. |
| 19For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do. | 19For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. |
| 20But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me. | 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. |
| 21So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. | 21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. |
| 22For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being, | 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. |
| 23but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body. | 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. |
| 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death? | 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? |
| 25Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin. | 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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