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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
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 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 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 motions of sins, which were by the law, did work
in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 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 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, taking
occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For
without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law
once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And
the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto
death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the
commandment holy, and just, and good. 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,
sold under sin. 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 If then I do that which
I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now
then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 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
the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now
if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in
me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 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 O
wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 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.
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