Romans 7

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Or do you not know, brothers, (now I am speaking to those who know the law) that the law has dominion over a man only so long as he lives?	1 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?
2 For example, a woman who is subject to a husband is obligated by the law while her husband lives. But when her husband has died, she is released from the law of her husband.	2 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.
3 Therefore, while her husband lives, if she has been with another man, she should be called an adulteress. But when her husband has died, she is freed from the law of her husband, such that, if she has been with another man, she is not an adulteress.	3 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.
4 And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.	4 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.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.	5 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.
6 But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.	6 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.
7 What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”	7 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.
8 But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.	8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,	9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.	10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.	11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.	12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.	13 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.	14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.	15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good.	16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.	17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.	18 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.
19 For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.	19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.	20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.	21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.	22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.	23 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.
24 Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from this body of death?	24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord! Therefore, I serve the law of God with my own mind; but with the flesh, the law of sin.	25 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.