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Romans 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Rom 7:1

Rom 7:1Do you not know, brethren--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only during his life?

Rom 7:2

Rom 7:2Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

Rom 7:3

Rom 7:3Accordingly, 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.

Rom 7:4

Rom 7:4Likewise, my brethren, you 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.

Rom 7:5

Rom 7:5While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Rom 7:6

Rom 7:6But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

Rom 7:7

Rom 7:7What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Rom 7:8

Rom 7:8But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.

Rom 7:9

Rom 7:9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

Rom 7:10

Rom 7:10the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.

Rom 7:11

Rom 7:11For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

Rom 7:12

Rom 7:12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Rom 7:13

Rom 7:13Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working 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.

The Conflict of Two Natures

Rom 7:14

Rom 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Rom 7:15

Rom 7:15I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Rom 7:16

Rom 7:16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.

Rom 7:17

Rom 7:17So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

Rom 7:18

Rom 7:18For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Rom 7:19

Rom 7:19For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

Rom 7:20

Rom 7:20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

Rom 7:21

Rom 7:21So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Rom 7:22

Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

Rom 7:23

Rom 7:23but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Rom 7:24

Rom 7:24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Rom 7:25

Rom 7:25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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