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9 I once lyued without lawe: But when the commaundement came, sinne reuyued, 10 And I was dead. And the very same commaundemet, which was ordeyned vnto lyfe, was founde to be vnto me an occasion of death. 11 For sinne, takyng occasion by the commaundement, hath deceaued me, and by the same slewe me. 12 Wherfore the lawe is holy, and the commaundement holy, & iust and good. 13 Was that then which was good, made death vnto me? God forbyd. But sinne, that sinne myght appeare, by that which was good to worke death in me: that sinne by ye commaundement, myght be out of measure sinfull. 14 For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne. 15 For that which I do, I alowe not. For what I woulde, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I. 16 If I do nowe that which I woulde not, I consent vnto the lawe, that it is good. 17 Nowe then, it is not I that do it: but sinne that dwelleth in me. 18 For I knowe, that in me, that is to say in my fleshe, dwelleth no good thyng. For to wyll, is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to perfourme that which is good. 19 For the good that I woulde, do I not: But the euyll which I woulde not, that do I. 20 And yf I do that I woulde not, then is it not I that doth it, but sinne that dwelleth in me. 21 I fynde then by the lawe, that when I woulde do good, euyll is present with me. 22 For I delite in the lawe of God, after the inwarde man: 23 But I see another lawe in my members, rebellyng agaynst the lawe of my mynde, and subduyng me vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am: Who shall deliuer me from the body of this death? 25 I thanke God through Iesus Christe our Lorde. So then, with the mynde I my selfe serue the lawe of God: but with the fleshe, the lawe of sinne. Romans 7:9-25, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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