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| [1]Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? |
[1]Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law) that the Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? |
| [2]for 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; |
[2]For the woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, while he liveth: but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the man. |
| [3]so, 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. |
[3]So then, if while the man liveth, she take another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she take another man. |
| [4]So 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; |
[4]So ye, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by the body of Christ, that ye should be unto another, even unto him that is raised up from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. |
| [5]for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death; |
[5]For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. |
| [6]and 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. |
[6]But now we are delivered from the Law, being dead unto it, wherein we were holden, that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. |
| [7]What, then, shall we say? the law [is] 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: |
[7]What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid. Nay, I knew not sin, but by the Law: for I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not lust. |
| [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. |
[8]But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is dead. |
| [9]And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; |
[9]For I once was alive, without the Law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, |
| [10]and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death; |
[10]But I died: and the same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death. |
| [11]for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me]; |
[11]For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and thereby slew me. |
| [12]so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. |
[12]Wherefore the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good. |
| [13]That 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, |
[13]Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid: but sin, that it might appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sin might be out of measure sinful by the commandment. |
| [14]for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin; |
[14]For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. |
| [15]for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do. |
[15]For I allow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I. |
| [16]And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good, |
[16]If I do then that which I would not, I consent to the Law, that it is good. |
| [17]and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me, |
[17]Now then, it is no more I, that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me. |
| [18]for 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, |
[18]For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good. |
| [19]for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise. |
[19]For I do not the good thing, which I would, but the evil, which I would not, that do I. |
| [20]And 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. |
[20]Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me. |
| [21]I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present, |
[21]I find then by the Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. |
| [22]for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, |
[22]For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the inner man: |
| [23]and 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 [is] in my members. |
[23]But I see another law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin, which is in my members. |
| [24]A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? |
[24]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. |
[25]I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then I my self in my mind serve the Law of God, but in my flesh the law of sin. |