1 Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:3 so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.4 So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among {the} dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.5 For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which {were} by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;6 but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.7 What shall we say then? {is} the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;8 but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin {was} dead.9 But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.10 And the commandment, which {was} for life, was found, {as} to me, itself {to be} unto death:11 for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.12 So that the law indeed {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.13 Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.15 For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.16 But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that {it is} right.17 Now then {it is} no longer *I* {that} do it, but the sin that dwells in me.18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right {I find} not.19 For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.20 But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, {it is} no longer *I* {that} do it, but the sin that dwells in me.21 I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:23 but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.24 O wretched man that I {am}! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.

1 Of weet julle nie, broeders want ek spreek met mense wat die wet ken dat die wet oor die mens heers so lank as hy lewe nie?2 Want die getroude vrou is deur die wet aan die lewende man gebonde; maar as die man sterwe, is sy ontslae van die wet van die man.3 Daarom dan, as sy 'n ander man s'n word terwyl haar man lewe, sal sy 'n egbreekster genoem word; maar as die man sterwe, is sy vry van die wet, sodat sy nie 'n egbreekster is as sy 'n ander man s'n word nie.4 So, my broeders, is julle dan ook ten opsigte van die wet dood deur die liggaam van Christus, om aan 'n ander te behoort, naamlik aan Hom wat uit die dode opgewek is, sodat ons tot eer van God vrugte kan dra.5 Want toe ons in die vlees was, het die sondige hartstogte wat deur die wet kom, in ons lede gewerk om vir die dood vrugte te dra.6 Maar nou is ons ontslae van die wet waardeur ons gebonde was, aangesien ons dit afgesterf het, sodat ons dien in die nuwigheid van die Gees en nie in die oudheid van die letter nie.7 Wat sal ons dan sê? Is die wet sonde? Nee, stellig nie! Inteendeel, ek sou die sonde nie anders as deur die wet geken het nie; want ek sou ook die begeerlikheid nie geken het nie as die wet nie gesê het: Jy mag nie begeer nie.8 Maar die sonde het aanleiding gevind deur die gebod en in my allerhande begeerlikheid gewerk; want sonder die wet is die sonde dood.9 En sonder die wet het ek vroeër gelewe, maar toe die gebod kom, het die sonde weer opgelewe en ek het gesterwe.10 En die gebod wat die lewe moes wees, die het vir my geblyk die dood te wees.11 Want die sonde het aanleiding gevind deur die gebod en my verlei en daardeur gedood.12 Dus is die wet heilig en die gebod is heilig en regverdig en goed.13 Het die goeie dan vir my die dood geword? Nee, stellig nie! Maar wel die sonde, dat dit kon blyk sonde te wees, omdat dit deur die goeie vir my die dood bewerk, sodat die sonde deur die gebod uitermate sondig kon word.14 Want ons weet dat die wet geestelik is, maar ek is vleeslik, verkoop onder die sonde.15 Want wat ek doen, weet ek nie; want wat ek wil, dit doen ek nie, maar wat ek haat, dit doen ek.16 En as ek doen wat ek nie wil nie, dan stem ek die wet toe dat dit goed is.17 Maar nou is dit nie meer ek wat dit doen nie, maar die sonde wat in my woon.18 Want ek weet dat in my, dit wil sê in my vlees, niks goeds woon nie; want om te wil, is by my aanwesig, maar om goed te doen, dit vind ek nie.19 Want die goeie wat ek wil, doen ek nie, maar die kwaad wat ek nie wil nie, dit doen ek.20 Maar as ek doen wat ek nie wil nie, dan doen ek dit nie meer nie, maar die sonde wat in my woon.21 Ek vind dus hierdie wet: as ek die goeie wil doen, is die kwaad by my aanwesig.22 Want ek verlustig my in die wet van God na die innerlike mens;23 maar ek sien 'n ander wet in my lede wat stryd voer teen die wet van my gemoed en my gevange neem onder die wet van die sonde wat in my lede is.24 Ek, ellendige mens! Wie sal my verlos van die liggaam van hierdie dood?25 Ek dank God deur Jesus Christus, onse Here! [ (Romans 7:26) So dien ek self dan wel met die gemoed die wet van God, maar met die vlees die wet van die sonde. ]