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?

Or 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?

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 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.

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 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.

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;

Therefore, 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.

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 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.

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 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

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? 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.”

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.

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

9 A nd I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

I was alive once without the law, 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 the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

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

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

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

Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Law Cannot Save from Sin

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,

Has 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.

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

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under 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 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.

16 A nd if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that good,

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

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

But now, it is no longer I who 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,

For 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.

19 f or the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

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

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.

Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, 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,

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

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 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, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to 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 will deliver me from this body of 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.

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.