1 Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?
2 For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.
3 So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.
7 What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.
8 But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.
9 And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.
11 For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
12 So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
15 For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.
16 But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.
18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.
19 For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.
20 But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.
21 Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
23 but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.
24 I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.
1 Remember ye not brethren (I speake to them yt know the lawe) how that the lawe hath power over a man as longe as it endureth?
2 For the woman which is in subieccion to a man is bounde by the lawe to the man as longe as he liveth. Yf the man be deed she is lowsed from the lawe of the man.
3 So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.
4 Even so ye my brethren are deed concerninge the lawe by the body of Christ yt ye shuld be coupled to another (I meane to him that is rysen agayne fro deeth) that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto God.
5 For when we were in the flesshe the lustes of synne which were stered vppe by ye lawe raygned in oure membres to bringe forth frute vnto deeth.
6 But now are we delivered fro the lawe and deed fro that whervnto we werein bondage that we shuld serve in a newe conversacion of ye sprete and not in ye olde conversacion of the letter.
7 What shall we saye then? is ye lawe synne? God forbid: but I knewe not what synne meant but by the lawe. For I had not knowne what lust had meant excepte the lawe had sayde thou shalt not lust.
8 But synne toke an occasion by the meanes of the commaundement and wrought in me all manner of concupiscece. For with out the lawe synne was deed.
9 I once lived with out lawe. But when the commaundement came synne revyved and I was deed.
10 And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.
11 For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe we.
12 Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.
13 Was that then which is good made deeth vnto me? God forbyd. Naye synne was deeth vnto me that it myght appere how that synne by the meanes of that which is good had wrought deeth in me: that synne which is vnder the commandemet myght be out of measure synfull.
14 For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne
15 because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.
16 Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.
17 So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.
18 For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.
19 For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.
20 Finally yf I do that I wolde not then is it not I that doo it but synne that dwelleth in me doeth it.
21 I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.
22 I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.
23 But I se another lawe in my membres rebellinge agaynst the lawe of my mynde and subduynge me vnto the lawe of synne which is in my membres.
24 O wretched man yt I am: who shall delyver me fro this body of deeth?
25 I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then I my silfe in my mynde serve the lawe of God and in my flesshe the lawe of synne.