Romans 7:1-11 ▼

1 Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives?

2 For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.

3 Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.

4 Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

6 And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

8 And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead.

9 And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

10 And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.

11 For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me.