1 Or are you⁺ ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those knowing law), that the law rules over the man for as long as [the] time he lives? VP
2 For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband. VP
3 So then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become unto another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, [so as] not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man. VP
4 Likewise, my brothers, you⁺ also have been put to death to the law through the body of Christ, for you⁺ to become unto another, unto the [One] having been raised out from [the] dead, so that we should bear fruit to God. VP
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that [were] through the law were working in our members, to the bearing of fruit unto death. VP
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so as for us to serve in [the] newness of [the] Spirit, and not in [the] oldness of [the] letter. VP
7 What then will we say? [Is] the law sin? Never may it be! But I did not know sin, if not through [the] law. For I would not have been conscious of covetousness if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” VP
8 But sin, having taken [the] opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from [the] law, sin [is] dead. VP
9 And I was once alive apart from [the] law, but the commandment having come, sin revived and I died; VP
10 and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found by me unto death. VP
11 For sin, having taken [the] opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me]. VP
12 So indeed, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good. VP
13 Did that which [is] good, then, become death to me? Never may it be! But so that sin might be shown as sin, it is producing death through that which [is] good to me, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond excess. VP
14 For we have known that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold as a slave under sin. VP
15 For what I carry out, I do not understand. For what I desire, this I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do. VP
16 Now if what I do not desire, this I do, I assent to the law, that [it is] good. VP
17 But now I no longer carry it out, but the sin dwelling in me. VP
18 For I know that there does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh—good. For to desire is present with me, but not to carry out the good. VP
19 For [the] good that I desire I do not do, but [the] evil that I do not desire, this I practice. VP
20 Now if what I do not desire, this I do, no longer do I carry it out, but sin dwelling in me. VP
21 I find, then, the law in my desiring to do good, that evil is present with me. VP
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, VP
23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members. VP
24 O wretched man [that] I am! Who will deliver me out of this body of death? VP
25 But thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself indeed with the mind serve God’s law, but [with] the flesh, [the] law of sin. VP