Romans 7:1-11 ▼

1 Or are you? ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law rules over the man for as long as the time he lives?

2 For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.

3 So then, of the husband being alive, if she becomes unto another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man.

4 Likewise, my brothers, you? also have been put to death to the law through the body of Christ, for you? to become unto another, unto the One having been raised out from the dead, so that we should bear fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that were through the law were working in our members, to the bearing of fruit to death.

6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so as for us to serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What then will we say? Is the law sin? Never may it be! But I did not know sin, if not through the law. For I would not have been conscious of covetousness if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

8 But sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but on the commandment's having come, sin revived and I died;

10 and the commandment that was unto life, this was found by me unto death.

11 For sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.