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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 7 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Romans 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/6.htm" title="Romans 6">◄</a> Romans 7 <a href="../romans/8.htm" title="Romans 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/romans/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Believer’s Relationship to the Law</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “<b><i>Do not covet</i></b>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.</p><p class="bodytext"> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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