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?

¶ Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man only 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 woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free 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 if, while her husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs 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.

Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto 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 while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the 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? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

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.

Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.

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

So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.

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

For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.

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

So the law is truly 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.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

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

¶ For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by 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 understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.

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

If then I do that which I do not desire, I approve that the law is good.

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

So that it is no longer I that do it, but 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.

And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

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 do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, 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.

And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me.

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

So that, desiring to do good, I find this law: evil is natural unto me.

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

For I delight with the law of God with 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 which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.

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

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.

The grace of God, by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.