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Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
Do you not know, brothers and sisters — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
Do you not know, brothers and sisters — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
Released from the Law
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
God's Law is Holy
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Struggling with Sin
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.