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| 1Don't you realize, brothers—for I am speaking to people who know the Law—that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive? | 1Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? |
| 2For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband. | 2For 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. |
| 3So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this Law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man. | 3Accordingly, 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. |
| 4In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God. | 4Likewise, 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. |
| 5For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death. | 5For 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. |
| 6But now we have been released from the Law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old writings. | 6But 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. |
| 7What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet." | 7What 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.” |
| 8But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead. | 8But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. |
| 9At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life, | 9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. |
| 10and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death. | 10The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. |
| 11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me. | 11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. |
| 12So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good. | 12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. |
| 13Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before. | 13Did 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. |
| 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin. | 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. |
| 15I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate. | 15For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. |
| 16Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good. | 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. |
| 17As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me. | 17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. |
| 18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out. | 18For 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. |
| 19For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do. | 19For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. |
| 20But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me. | 20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. |
| 21So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. | 21So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. |
| 22For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being, | 22For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, |
| 23but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body. | 23but 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. |
| 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death? | 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? |
| 25Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin. | 25Thanks 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. |
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