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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/romans/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Release from the Law<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../galatians/3.htm#15">Galatians 3:15–25</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Law Is Holy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the command was found to me which for life, this for death. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Struggling with Sin<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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