1 O r do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

2 F or the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

For 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:

3 S o then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.

so 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.

4 T herefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

So 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 dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5 F or when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

6 B ut now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Sin’s Advantage in the Law

but 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.

7 W hat shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

What shall we say then? 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;

8 B ut sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin dead.

9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

10 A nd the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

And the commandment, which for life, was found, to me, itself unto death:

11 F or sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew.

12 T herefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Law Cannot Save from Sin

So that the law indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 H as then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Did 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.

14 F or we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

15 F or what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

16 I f, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that right.

17 B ut now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

Now then no longer I do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

18 F or I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

For 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 not.

19 F or the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

20 N ow if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, no longer I do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

22 F or I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

23 B ut 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.

but 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.

24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

O wretched man that I! who shall deliver me out of this body of 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.

I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.