The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Romans 07
1 Or don’t you know, brothers† (for I
speak to men who know the law), that the
law has dominion over a man for as long
as he lives?
2 For the woman that has a husband is
bound by law to the husband while he
lives, but if the husband dies, she
is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she
is joined to another man, she would be
called an adulteress. But if the husband
dies, she is free from the law, so that she
is no adulteress, though she is joined to
another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were
made dead to the law through the body
of Christ, that you would be joined to another,
to him who was raised from the
dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the
sinful passions which were through the
law worked in our members to bring out
fruit to death.
6 But now we have been discharged from
the law, having died to that in which we
were held; so that we serve in newness of
the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have
known sin except through the law. For I
wouldn’t have known coveting unless the
law had said, “You shall not covet.”* in me all kinds
of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 I was alive apart from the law once,
but when the commandment came, sin
revived and I died.
10 The commandment which was for life,
this I found to be for death;
11 for sin, finding occasion through the
commandment, deceived me, and through
it killed me.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and
the commandment holy, righteous, and
good.
13 Did then that which is good become
death to me? May it never be! But sin, that
it might be shown to be sin, was producing
death in me through that which is good;
that through the commandment sin might
become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual,
but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 For I don’t understand what I am
doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do;
but what I hate, that I do.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I
consent to the law that it is good.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin
which dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my
flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is
present with me, but I don’t find it doing
that which is good.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t
do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I
practice.
20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is
no more Ithat do it, but sin which
dwells in me.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire
to do good, evil is present.
22 For I delight in God’s law after the
inward person,
23 but I see a different law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity under the
law of sin which is in my members.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will
deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our
Lord! So then with the mind,I myself serve
God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.