[Romans 7]

 

             ^7:1 Or are you^° ignorant, brethren (for^* I am speaking to those knowing the law), The law has lordship over a man inasmuch time as he is living? ^7:2 For^* the woman under the husband has been bound by the law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been done-away-with {i.e., discharged} from the law of the husband. ^7:3 Therefore, consequently^*, if the husband is living, if she becomes joined to a different man, she will be divinely-called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress, even if she had become joined to a different man.

             ^7:4 So-then my brethren, you^° were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; ^*that^* you^° should become joined to a different one, that is to the one who was raised up from the dead, in-order-that we should bear-fruit to God. ^7:5 For^* when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions were working in our members through the law, ^*that^* they might bear-fruit to the death. ^7:6 But now we have been done-away-with {i.e., were discharged} from the law, died in which we were being held; so-as for us to be enslaved in newness of spirit and not in oldness of writing.

 

             ^7:7 Therefore, what will we say? Is the law sin? Let it not happen! But, I did not know the sin, except through the law; for^* I also did not know the lusting {O.T. desire (but with an object) and elsewhere}, except that the law was saying, Do not lust. {Exo 20:17} ^7:8 But the sin took a starting-point and worked in me through the commandment all manner of lust; for^* separate from the law sin is dead. ^7:9 But I was previously living separate from the law, but when the commandment came, the sin lived again through me and I died, ^7:10 and the commandment (the one into life) was found in me to be into death; ^7:11 for^* the sin took a starting-point through the commandment and deceived me and through it, it killed me. ^7:12 So-then the law indeed is holy and the commandment holy and righteous and good. ^7:13 Therefore, what is the good thing to me, has it become death? Let it not happen! But the sin, in-order-that it might appear as sin, through what is the good thing to me, was working death; in-order-that the sin might become surpassingly sinful through the commandment. ^7:14 For^* we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, I have been sold^* under the sin.

             ^7:15 For^* I do not know what I am working. For^* I am practicing this thing which I do not will but instead I am doing^* this thing which I am hating. ^7:16 But if I am doing^* this thing which I do not will, I acknowledge together-with the law, that it is good. ^7:17 But now I no longer am working it, but the sin dwelling in me. ^7:18 For^* I know that what is a good thing is not dwelling in me (this is: in my flesh); for^* it is lying-beside me to will it, but I am not finding the good thing to work it. ^7:19 For^* I am not doing^* the good thing which I will, but instead I am practicing this evil thing which I do not will. ^7:20 But if I am doing^* this thing which I do not will, I am no longer working it, but the sin dwelling in me. ^7:21 Consequently^*, I find the law in me, the one willing to do^* the good thing, that the evil is lying-beside me.

             ^7:22 For^* I delight-inwardly in the law of God according-to the inward man. ^7:23 But I am seeing a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and capturing me in the law of the sin, the one being in my members. ^7:24 O I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me out-of the body of this death? ^7:25 I am giving-thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, consequently^*, I myself, indeed, serve^* the law of God in the mind, but I myself serve^* the law of sin in the flesh.