| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 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? | 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? |
| 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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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 by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old writings. |
| 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 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." |
| 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. | 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. |
| 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. | 9At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life, |
| 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. | 10and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death. |
| 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. | 11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me. |
| 12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. | 12So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, 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. | 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. |
| 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 merely human, sold as a slave to sin. |
| 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. | 15I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate. |
| 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. | 16Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good. |
| 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. | 17As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is 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 I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out. |
| 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. | 19For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't 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. | 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. |
| 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. | 21So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. |
| 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: | 22For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being, |
| 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 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. |
| 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 body that is infected by death? |
| 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. | 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. |
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