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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 7 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/romans/7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Released from the Law<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../galatians/3.htm#15">Galatians 3:15-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the 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 shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: 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 alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So that the law is holy, and the commandment 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>Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shewn to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.</p> <p class="reg"><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 carnal, sold under sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/romans/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>