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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 BLB</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><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</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="/berean/romans/7.htm" width="100%" height="32" 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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Release from the Law<br /><span class="cross">(Galatians 3:15-25)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Or are you ignorant brothers (for I speak to those knowing <i>the</i> law), that the law rules over the man for as long as <i>the</i> time he is alive? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is cleared from the law of the husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So then, if she is to another man, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, <i>so as for</i> her not to be an adulteress, having been to another man. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Likewise, my brothers, you also have been put to death to the Law through the body of Christ, for you to belong to another, to the <i>One</i> having been raised out from <i>the</i> dead, so that we should bear fruit to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For while we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that <i>were</i> through the Law were at work in our members, to the bringing forth of fruit to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that which we were bound, in order for us to serve in newness of <i>the</i> Spirit, and not in oldness of <i>the</i> letter. </p><p class="hdg">God's Law is Holy</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What then shall we say? <i>Is</i> the Law sin? Never may it be! But I have not known sin, if not by Law. And indeed, I had not been conscious of covetousness if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21">a</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from <i>the</i> Law, sin <i>is</i> dead. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I once was alive apart from Law; but the commandment having come, sin revived, and I died; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and this commandment that <i>was</i> unto life proved to be death to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it put <i>me</i> to death. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So indeed, the Law <i>is</i> holy, and the commandment <i>is</i> holy and righteous and good. </p><p class="hdg">Struggling with Sin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Has that which <i>is</i> good then become death to me? Never may it be! But in order that sin might be shown to be sin, it is working out death through that which <i>is</i> good to me, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond excess. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we know that <i>the</i> Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold under sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For what I do, I do not understand. For what I want, this I do not do; but what I hate, this I do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now if that which I do not want, this I do, I consent to the Law, that <i>it is</i> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And in that case I am no longer doing it, but the sin dwelling in me. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that there dwells in me nothing good, that is, in my flesh. For to will is present with me, but not to do good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For <i>the</i> good that I desire, I do not do; but <i>the</i> evil that I do not want, this I practice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now if what I do not want, I do this, <i>it is</i> no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So I find the principle in my desiring to do good, that 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 according to the inward man; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>O wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of this body of death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thanks <i>be</i> then to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!</p><p class="reg"> So then, I myself indeed with <i>my</i> mind serve God’s Law; but <i>with</i> the flesh, <i>the</i> Law of sin.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnote">Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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