CHAP. VII.
We are released by Christ from
the law, and from the guilt
of sin: though the inclination
to it still tempt us.
1 Know you not, brethren,
(for I speak to
them that know the law) how
the law hath dominion over a
man, as long as note it liveth?
2 For the woman that hath
a husband, whilst her husband
liveth, is bound to the law.
But if her husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of
her husband.
3 Wherefore, whilst her
husband liveth, she shall be
called an adulteress if she be
with another man: but if her
husband be dead, she is freed
from the law of her husband:
so that she is not an adulteress
if she be with another man:
4 Therefore, my brethren,
you also are become dead to
the law by the body of Christ;
that you may belong to another,
who is risen again from
the dead, that we may bring
forth fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the
flesh, the passions of sins, which
were by the law, did work in
our members, to bring forth
fruit unto death.
6 But now we are loosed
from the law of death, wherein
we were detained: so that
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we should serve in newness of
spirit, and not in the oldness
of the letter.
7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid.
But I did not know sin, but by
the law: for I had not known
concupiscence, if the law had
not said: Thou shalt not covet.
8 But note sin taking occasion
by the commandment
wrought in me all manner
of concupiscence. For without
the law sin was dead.
9 And I lived some time
without the law. But when
the commandment came, sin
revived.
10 And I died: and the
commandment, that was ordained
to life, the same was
found to be unto death to me.
11 For sin, taking occasion
by the commandment, seduced
me, and by it killed me.
12 Wherefore the law indeed
is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and
good.
13 Was that then which
is good, made death to me?
God forbid. But sin, note that
it may appear sin, by that
which is good, wrought death
in me: that sin by the commandment
might become sinful
above measure.
14 For we know that the
law is spiritual, but I am carnal,
sold under sin.
15 For that which I work,
I understand not. For note
I do not that good which I
will, but the evil which I
hate, that I do.
16 If then I do that which
I will not, I consent to the law,
that it is good.
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17 Now then it is no more
I that do it; but sin that
dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that there
dwelleth not in me, that is to
say, in my flesh, that which is
good. For to will, is present
with me, but to accomplish
that which is good, I find not.
19 For the good which I
will, I do not; but the evil
which I will not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that which I
will not, it is no more I that do
it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that
when I have a will to do
good, evil is present with me.
22 For I am delighted with
the law of God, according to
the inward man:
23 But I see another law in
my members, fighting against
the law of my mind, and captivating
me in the law of sin,
that is in my members.
24 Unhappy man that I
am, who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?
25 The grace of God by
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore I myself, with the
mind, serve the law of God;
but, with the flesh, the law of sin.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
