| King James Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? | 1Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives? |
| 2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. | 2For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband. |
| 3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. | 3So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress. |
| 4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. | 4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another--to Him who was raised from the dead--that we may bear fruit for God. |
| 5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. | 5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death. |
| 6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. | 6But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law. |
| 7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. | 7What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. |
| 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. | 8And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. |
| 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. | 9Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life |
| 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. | 10and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me. |
| 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. | 11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. |
| 12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. | 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. |
| 13Was 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 by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. | 13Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure. |
| 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. | 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin's power. |
| 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. | 15For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. |
| 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. | 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. |
| 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. | 17So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. |
| 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. | 18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. |
| 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. | 19For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. |
| 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. | 20Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. |
| 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. | 21So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. |
| 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: | 22For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God's law. |
| 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. | 23But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. |
| 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? | 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body? |
| 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. | 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin. |
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