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Romans 7

Believers United to Christ

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Or do you not know,  abrethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?

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For  athe married woman is bound by law to her  1husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law  2concerning the husband.

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So 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.

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Therefore, my brethren, you also were  amade to die  bto the Law  cthrough 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.

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For while we were  ain the flesh, the sinful passions, which were  baroused by the Law, were at work  cin  1the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

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But now we have been  areleased from the Law, having  bdied to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in  cnewness of  dthe  1Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

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 aWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin?  bMay it never be! On the contrary,  cI would not have come to know sin except  1through the Law; for I would not have known about  2coveting if the Law had not said, " dYOU SHALL NOT  2COVET."

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But sin,  ataking opportunity  bthrough the commandment, produced in me  1coveting of every kind; for  capart  2from the Law sin is dead.

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I was once alive apart  1from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

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and this commandment, which was  1 ato result in life, proved  2to result in death for me;

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for sin,  ataking an opportunity  bthrough the commandment,  cdeceived me and through it killed me.

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 aSo then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

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Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me?  aMay 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.

The Conflict of Two Natures

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For we know that the Law is  aspiritual, but I am  aof flesh,  bsold  1 cinto bondage to sin.

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For what I am doing,  aI do not understand; for I am not practicing  bwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

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But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with  athe Law, confessing that the Law is good.

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So now,  ano longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

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For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my  aflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

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For  athe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

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But if I am doing the very thing I do not want,  aI am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

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I find then  athe  1principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

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For I joyfully concur with the law of God  1in  athe inner man,

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but I see  aa different law in  1the members of my body, waging war against the  blaw of my mind and making me a prisoner  2of  cthe law of sin which is in my members.

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Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from  1 athe body of this  bdeath?

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 aThanks 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  bthe law of sin.



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