1: Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know
the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
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2: For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed
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So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to
another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be
dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though
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4: Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him
who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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5: For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter. |
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7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet. |
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8: But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. |
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9: For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died. |
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10: And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to
be unto death. |
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11: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and
by it slew me. |
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12: Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and
just, and good. |
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13: Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.
But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. |
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14: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
under sin. |
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15: For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. |
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16: If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law
that it is good. |
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17: Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in
me. |
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18: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
which is good I find not. |
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19: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I
would not, that I do. |
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20: Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
sin that dwelleth in me. |
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21: I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is
present with me. |
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22: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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23: 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. |
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24: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death? |
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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.
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