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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/romans/">Romans</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/romans/7.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/romans/7.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/romans/7.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/romans/7.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/romans/7.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/romans/7.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/romans/7.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </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 class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For instance, 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 marriage. <A name="4"></a><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 still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore, my brothers, 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 to God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now, having died to what 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. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Law Is Holy<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><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. <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Struggling with Sin<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/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. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>What a wretched man 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! <p class="reg"> So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <a href="../exodus/20.htm#17">Exodus 20:17</a>; <a href="../deuteronomy/5.htm#21">Deuteronomy 5:21</a><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Literally <i>captive to the law of sin being in my members.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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