[an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Thanks 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 the law of sin. |
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