7:1 Or
do
you
not
know,
brothers--for
I
am
speaking
to
those
who
know
the
law--that
the
law
is
binding
on
a
person
only
as
long
as
he
lives
7:2 For
a
married
woman
is
bound
by
law
to
her
husband
while
he
lives,
but
if
her
husband
dies
she
is
released
from
the
law
of
marriage.
7:3 Accordingly,
she
will
be
called
an
adulteress
if
she
lives
with
another
man
while
her
husband
is
alive.
But
if
her
husband
dies,
she
is
free
from
that
law,
and
if
she
marries
another
man
she
is
not
an
adulteress.
7:4 Likewise,
my
brothers,
you
also
have
died
to
the
law
through
the
body
of
Christ,
so
that
you
may
belong
to
another,
to
him
who
has
been
raised
from
the
dead,
in
order
that
we
may
bear
fruit
for
God.
7:5 For
while
we
were
living
in
the
flesh,
our
sinful
passions,
aroused
by
the
law,
were
at
work
in
our
members
to
bear
fruit
for
death.
7:6 But
now
we
are
released
from
the
law,
having
died
to
that
which
held
us
captive,
so
that
we
serve
in
the
new
way
of
the
Spirit
and
not
in
the
old
way
of
the
written
code.
7:7 What
then
shall
we
say
That
the
law
is
sin
By
no
means!
Yet
if
it
had
not
been
for
the
law,
I
would
not
have
known
sin.
For
I
would
not
have
known
what
it
is
to
covet
if
the
law
had
not
said,
"You
shall
not
covet."
7:8 But
sin,
seizing
an
opportunity
through
the
commandment,
produced
in
me
all
kinds
of
covetousness.
For
apart
from
the
law,
sin
lies
dead.
7:9 I
was
once
alive
apart
from
the
law,
but
when
the
commandment
came,
sin
came
alive
and
I
died.
7:10 The
very
commandment
that
promised
life
proved
to
be
death
to
me.
7:11 For
sin,
seizing
an
opportunity
through
the
commandment,
deceived
me
and
through
it
killed
me.
7:12 So
the
law
is
holy,
and
the
commandment
is
holy
and
righteous
and
good.
7:13 Did
that
which
is
good,
then,
bring
death
to
me
By
no
means!
It
was
sin,
producing
death
in
me
through
what
is
good,
in
order
that
sin
might
be
shown
to
be
sin,
and
through
the
commandment
might
become
sinful
beyond
measure.
7:14 For
we
know
that
the
law
is
spiritual,
but
I
am
of
the
flesh,
sold
under
sin.
7:15 For
I
do
not
understand
my
own
actions.
For
I
do
not
do
what
I
want,
but
I
do
the
very
thing
I
hate.
7:16 Now
if
I
do
what
I
do
not
want,
I
agree
with
the
law,
that
it
is
good.
7:17 So
now
it
is
no
longer
I
who
do
it,
but
sin
that
dwells
within
me.
7:18 For
I
know
that
nothing
good
dwells
in
me,
that
is,
in
my
flesh.
For
I
have
the
desire
to
do
what
is
right,
but
not
the
ability
to
carry
it
out.
7:19 For
I
do
not
do
the
good
I
want,
but
the
evil
I
do
not
want
is
what
I
keep
on
doing.
7:20 Now
if
I
do
what
I
do
not
want,
it
is
no
longer
I
who
do
it,
but
sin
that
dwells
within
me.
7:21 So
I
find
it
to
be
a
law
that
when
I
want
to
do
right,
evil
lies
close
at
hand.
7:22 For
I
delight
in
the
law
of
God,
in
my
inner
being,
7:23 but
I
see
in
my
members
another
law
waging
war
against
the
law
of
my
mind
and
making
me
captive
to
the
law
of
sin
that
dwells
in
my
members.
7:24 Wretched
man
that
I
am!
Who
will
deliver
me
from
this
body
of
death
7:25 Thanks
be
to
God
through
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord!
So
then,
I
myself
serve
the
law
of
God
with
my
mind,
but
with
my
flesh
I
serve
the
law
of
sin.