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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?
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?
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.
For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her.
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.
So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.
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.
So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
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.
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.
But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
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.”
But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
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.
But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
The Conflict of Two Natures
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
Struggling with Sin
So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
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.
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.
But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
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.
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
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.
But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
I have discovered this principle of life — that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
I love God’s law with all my heart.
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.
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
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.
Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.