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Romans 7
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Darby Bible · 1890
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King James Version · 1611
1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
1Know 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?
2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:
2For 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.
3so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
3So 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.
4So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit toGod.
4Wherefore, 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.
5For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
5For 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.
6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
6But 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.
7What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
7What 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.
8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
13Was 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.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.
18For 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.
19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the law ofGod according to the inward man:
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.
23But 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.