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1 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives? Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the Law), that the Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. So then, if while her husband is alive she gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she gives herself to another man.
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were brought to light by the Law, were at work in the parts of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. But 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 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Far from it! 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 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. But sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died;
10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it, killed me.
12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? Far from it! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by bringing about my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into bondage to sin.
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, that the Law is good.
17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. But now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. But if I do the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: For I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner person,
23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body? O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Thanks 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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