| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person 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 the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. |
| 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. | 3So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. |
| 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. | 4Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might 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 in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body 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 have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. |
| 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 shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting 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, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is 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 became alive and I died; |
| 10and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death. | 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; |
| 11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me. | 11for sin, taking 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 then, 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. | 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. |
| 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 flesh, sold into bondage to 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 what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. |
| 16Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good. | 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law 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, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in 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 the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. |
| 19For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do. | 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
| 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. | 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. |
| 21So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. | 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. |
| 22For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being, | 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, |
| 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 a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is 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 set me free from the body of this 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, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. |
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