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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Released from the Law</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Or do you not know, brothers<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters; also verse 4">a</a></sup></span>—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek law concerning the husband">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek of the letter">c</a></sup></span></p> <p class="heading">The Law and Sin</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to 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, but the evil I do not want is what 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, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i>; also verse 4<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Greek <i>law concerning the husband</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">of the</span> letter</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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