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title: Romans 7
slug: kjv-nt/romans-7
createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:03:30.180Z
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**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.