1 Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time
2 For the married woman is bound by law to
3 Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man
4 So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the law,
7 What then shall we say?
8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all
9 And I was alive once, apart from the law, but
10 and I died, and this commandment which
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed
12 So then, the law
13 Therefore,
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly,
15 For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want
16 But if what I do not want
17 But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.
18 For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing
19 For the good that I want
20 But if what I do not want
21 Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.
22 For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,
23 but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
24 Wretched man
25 But thanks