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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?
Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
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:
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, 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.
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 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.
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 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;
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.
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.
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;
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;
but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] 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.
But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *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 the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
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.
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.
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.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under 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 that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
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 what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
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.
For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
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 what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that 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 law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
I have discovered this principle of life — that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
I love God’s law with all my heart.
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.
O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
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.
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.