| 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 . |
