1 A re ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

¶ 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 married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the 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, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

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 S o that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might 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 passions of the sins, that through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the 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 a nd now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

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, then, shall we say? the law sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

¶ 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 ` Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is 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 A nd I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the 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 command that for life, this was found by me for death;

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

11 f or the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay;

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

12 s o that the law, indeed, holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

13 T hat which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

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 have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

¶ For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.

15 f or that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this 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 A nd if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that good,

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

17 a nd now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18 f or I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right 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, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

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

20 A nd if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling 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, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

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 a nd I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that 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 A wretched man I! who shall deliver me out of the body of this 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, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and 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.