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Believers United to Christ

Or do you not know, brethren (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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Released from the Law

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

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

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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:

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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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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.

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Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through 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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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.

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

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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;

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But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

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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.

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What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “YOU SHALL NOT COVET.”

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God's Law is Holy

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;

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But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

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but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

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

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But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

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

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And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

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for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

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for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

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

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So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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

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Struggling with Sin

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.

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The Conflict of Two Natures

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

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For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.

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

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For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

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

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But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.

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So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

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Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

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

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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.

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

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For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

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

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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.

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

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I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.

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

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For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

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

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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.

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Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

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O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

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Thanks 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 the law of sin.

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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.

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