Aug. 26
Romans 7
Rom 7:1 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?
Rom 7:2 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.
Rom 7:3 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.
Rom 7:4 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 bring forth fruit to God.
Rom 7:5 For when we
were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law,
worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Rom 7:6 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.
Rom 7:7 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."
Rom 7:8 But sin,
finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of
coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Rom 7:9 I was alive
apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived,
and I died.
Rom 7:10 The
commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Rom 7:11 for sin,
finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it
killed me.
Rom 7:12 Therefore the
law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and
good.
Rom 7:13 Did then that
which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it
might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which
is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding
sinful.
Rom 7:14 For we know
that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For I don't
know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but
what I hate, that I do.
Rom 7:16 But if what I
don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 So now it is
no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Rom 7:18 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.
Rom 7:19 For the good
which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I
practice.
Rom 7:20 But if what I
don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which
dwells in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then
the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Rom 7:22 For I delight
in God's law after the inward man,
Rom 7:23 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.
Rom 7:24 What a
wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God
through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve
God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.