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7:1  Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is binding on a person only so long as he lives?
7:2  Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
7:3  Accordingly, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
7:4  So then, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
7:5  For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, · · aroused by the law, were at work in · our bodies to bear fruit for death.
7:6  But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
7:7  What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known · sin except through the law; · that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.”
7:8  But sin, seizing the opportunity · through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For apart from the law, sin is dead.)
7:9  I · was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, · sin came to life
7:10  and I died. · I found that the very commandment that promised life brought death to me!
7:11  · For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
7:12  So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
7:13  Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But · sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good so that sin, through the commandment, might be sinful beyond measure ·
7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to · sin.
7:15  For I do not understand my own actions; for I am not doing what I want to do, but I am doing what I hate.
7:16  But if I am doing what I do not want to do, I agree with the law, that it is good.
7:17  So now it is no longer I myself doing it, but · sin living in me.
7:18  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in · my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is right, · but I am unable to do it.
7:19  For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
7:20  Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but · sin that lives in me.
7:21  So I find it to be a law that when I want to do · good, evil is present in me. ·
7:22  For I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner man,
7:23  but I see a different law in · my members; it wages war against the law of my mind and makes me captive to the law of sin · dwelling in · my members.
7:24  Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from · this body of death?
7:25  Thanks · be to God through Jesus Christ · our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.