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But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.</p> <p><span id="v52007004" class="ver">4</span>In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. <span id="v52007005" class="ver">5</span>For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.<a id="ren52007005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007005-b">b</a> <span id="v52007006" class="ver">6</span>But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter.<a id="ren52007006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007006-c">c</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Acquaintance with Sin Through the Law.</span> <span id="v52007007" class="ver">7</span><a id="rfn52007007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52007007-1">*</a> What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not!<a id="rfn52007007-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52007007-2">*</a> Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”<a id="ren52007007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007007-d">d</a> <span id="v52007008" class="ver">8</span>But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.<a id="ren52007008-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007008-e">e</a> <span id="v52007009" class="ver">9</span>I once lived outside the law, but when the commandment came, sin became alive; <span id="v52007010" class="ver">10</span>then I died, and the commandment that was for life turned out to be death for me.<a id="ren52007010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007010-f">f</a> <span id="v52007011" class="ver">11</span>For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.<a id="ren52007011-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007011-g">g</a> <span id="v52007012" class="ver">12</span>So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.<a id="ren52007012-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007012-h">h</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Sin and Death.<a id="rfn52007013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52007013-1">*</a></span> <span id="v52007013" class="ver">13</span>Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.<a id="ren52007013-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007013-i">i</a> <span id="v52007014" class="ver">14</span>We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.<a id="ren52007014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007014-j">j</a> <span id="v52007015" class="ver">15</span>What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate. <span id="v52007016" class="ver">16</span>Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good. <span id="v52007017" class="ver">17</span>So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. <span id="v52007018" class="ver">18</span>For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.<a id="ren52007018-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007018-k">k</a> <span id="v52007019" class="ver">19</span>For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. <span id="v52007020" class="ver">20</span>Now if [I] do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. <span id="v52007021" class="ver">21</span>So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand. <span id="v52007022" class="ver">22</span>For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, <span id="v52007023" class="ver">23</span><a id="ren52007023-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007023-l">l</a> but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.<a id="rfn52007023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52007023-1">*</a> <span id="v52007024" class="ver">24</span>Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? <span id="v52007025" class="ver">25</span>Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.<a id="ren52007025-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52007025-m">m</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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