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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 Worsley's New Testament</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="../">WNT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Worsley's New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/romans/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </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><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, <i>only</i> so long as it liveth? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For a married woman is bound by the law to <i>her</i> husband <i>while he is</i> living; but if <i>her</i> husband die, she is discharged from the law of <i>her</i> husband. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore while <i>her</i> husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if <i>her</i> husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, <i>even his</i> who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions <i>while we were</i> under the law operated in our bodies <i>so</i> as to bring forth fruit unto death. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we are delivered from the law, <i>that</i> being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve <i>God</i> in newness of spirit, and not <i>in the</i> oldness of <i>the</i> letter.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Law Is Holy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What shall we say then? <i>is</i> the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust <i>to be sinful,</i> if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet." <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin <i>was</i> dead. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died: <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and the commandment <i>which was intended</i> to life, I found <i>to be</i> unto death. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me. <A name="13"></a><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 just, and good.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Struggling with Sin<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be <i>shewn</i> by the commandment <i>to be</i> exceeding sinful.<p> <A name="15"></a><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. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For that which I do, I allow not: for I do not that which I would; but what I hate, this I do. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but now I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me. <A name="19"></a><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: for to will is present with me, but <i>how</i> to perform <i>that which is</i> good, I find not. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I do not the good that I would; but the evil which I would not, this I do. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now if I do that which I would not, I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I find then a <i>kind of</i> law, that when I would do good, evil besets me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I delight in the law of God, as to the inward man: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wretched man <i>that</i> I <i>am!</i> who shall deliver me from this body of death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worsley's New Testament (1770)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>