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but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! 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