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But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>In the same way, my friends,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32353b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> you 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Law and Sin</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>What then should 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. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working 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.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Inner Conflict</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32363c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!</span></p><p><span class="text">So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 7:1">Romans 7:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 7:4">Romans 7:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 7:14">Romans 7:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>sold under sin</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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