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CHAPTER 7

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What

then

shall we say?

Is the

Law

sin?

Absolutely 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."

But

sin,

seizing

its opportunity

through

the

commandment,

produced

in

me

every kind

of covetous desire.

For

apart from

the Law,

sin

is dead.

Once

I

was alive

apart from

the Law;

but when

the

commandment

came,

sin

sprang to life

and

I

died.

So

I

discovered that

the

very

commandment

that was

meant to bring

life

actually brought

death.

For

sin,

seizing

its opportunity

through

the

commandment,

deceived

me

and

through

the commandment

put me to death.

So

then,

the

Law is

holy,

and

the

commandment is

holy,

righteous,

and

good.

Did that which

is good,

then,

become

death

to me?

Absolutely 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.

We know

that

the Law

is

spiritual;

but

I

am

unspiritual,

sold as a slave

to

sin.

I do not understand

what

I do.

For

what

I want to do,

I do not do.

But

what

I hate,

I do.

And

if

I do

what

I do not desire,

I admit

that

the

Law

is good.

In that case,

it is no longer

I

who do

it,

but it is

sin

living

in

me that does it .

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.

For

I do not do

the good

I want to do.

Instead,

I keep on doing

the evil

I do not want to do.

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 .

So

this is the

principle

I have discovered:

When I

want

to do

good,

evil

is right there with

me.

For

in my

inner

being

I delight

in

God’s

Law.

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.

What a wretched

man

I am!

Who

will rescue

me

from

this

body

of death?

Thanks be

to

God,

through

Jesus

Christ

our

Lord!

So

then,

with my

mind

I

serve

the law

of God,

but

with my

flesh

I serve the law

of sin.

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