Romans 7
7:1Or do you not know, brethren, (for to the ones knowing law I speak), that the law dominates the man over as much time as he lives?
7:2For the married woman is tied by law to the living husband. But if the husband should die, she is cleared from the law of the husband.
7:3Surely then with the husband living, she shall be treated as an adulteress, if she becomes to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her to not be an adulteress, having become to another man.
7:4So that, my brethren, also you were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ; for you to become to another, to the one being arisen from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, the ones through the law exerted energy in our members for the bearing fruit to death.
7:6But now we were cleared from the law, having died by which we were held; so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not oldness of contract.
7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it not be. But the sin I knew not, except through the law; for also lust I knew not, except the law said, You shall not lust.
7:8But sin taking an opportunity through the commandment, manufactured in me every lust; for separate from the law sin was dead;
7:9and I was alive separate from the law at some time or other; but the commandment having come, sin was revived, and I died.
7:10And the commandment for life was found by me, for this to be to death.
7:11For sin having taken opportunity through the commandment, cheated me, and through it killed me.
7:12So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
7:13The thing then good, has it become death to me? May it not be. But the sin, that it should appear sin, through the good in me manufacturing death, that sin should become excessively sinful through the commandment.
7:14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold under the sin.
7:15For what I manufacture, I do not know; for not what I want to do, this I practice; and what I detest, this I do.
7:16But if what I do not want to do, this I do, then I assent to the law that it is good.
7:17But now, no longer I manufacture it, but it is the sin living in me.
7:18For I know that there does not live in me (that is to say in my flesh) good. For the will is present with me, but the manufacturing the good I do not find.
7:19For I do not do the good which I want to do, but the evil which I do not want to do, this I do.
7:20But if what I do not want to do, this I do; no longer I manufacture it, but it is sin living in me.
7:21I find then the law, in the one wanting in me to do the good, that with me the evil is present.
7:22For I delight in the law of God according to the inside man.
7:23But I see another law in my members, undertaking an expedition against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of the sin, to the one being in my members.
7:24O miserable man am I. Who shall rescue me from this body of death?
7:25I give thanks to God because of Jesus Christ our Lord. It is so then, I myself indeed to the mind serve the law of God, but to the flesh the law of sin.