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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 NIV</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/romans/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Released From the Law, Bound to Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we were in the realm of the flesh, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.">a</a></sup></span> the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Law and Sin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or my flesh">c</a></sup></span> For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!</p><p class="reg">So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in the flesh">d</a></sup></span> a slave to the law of sin.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">In contexts like this, the Greek word for <i>flesh</i> (<i>sarx</i>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>my flesh</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>in the flesh</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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