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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, 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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,
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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.
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.
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 we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that 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.
So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
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.
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.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
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.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I have discovered this principle of life — that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with 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.
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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.
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.