Romans 7:1-13

1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

2For 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:

3so 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.

4So 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 1God.

5For 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;

6but 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.

7What 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;

8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

9But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

10And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

12So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13Did 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.