Romans 7

¹⁴For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

⁶But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

³Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

²³For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

²¹Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

²³And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

²⁴For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

³⁹A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

⁷and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁸But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the Lord will absolve her.

¹⁴You shall not commit adultery.

³²But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

⁶However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

⁷‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

¹¹But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

¹²and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.

³The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

⁴and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

¹⁰If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

²⁴He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

⁵For your husband is your Maker—the Lord of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

¹⁹For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

³All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

¹⁶So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

²⁴Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

¹⁰All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

¹³Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

²¹What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

²³Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

²⁴So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

⁶And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

⁴We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

¹⁹For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

⁴But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

⁵to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

²⁰Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

¹⁵because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

¹⁷You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

²¹You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

⁹The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

¹¹For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

¹⁵because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

¹⁴But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

¹⁵Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

¹³Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

¹⁰All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

⁷because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

¹⁰Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

¹¹For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

¹⁹For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

²¹So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

⁵Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the Lord.

⁷Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

¹²The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

⁵For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

²¹But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.

¹¹And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

⁸But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

¹³But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

²⁶If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

¹⁶The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

⁸Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

¹³⁷Righteous are You, O Lord, and upright are Your judgments.

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

¹⁷²My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.

¹³You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

¹³When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.

¹⁴But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

²¹Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

³For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

⁸But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁹Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

²⁰The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

²⁵(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, incited by his wife Jezebel.

¹⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

³For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

²⁰When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

¹⁸I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

¹This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

¹⁹For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

²⁰And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

²⁰Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

²We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

⁷The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

¹²Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

⁸Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

¹²⁷Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

²⁰And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

¹⁸I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

⁸More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

⁹and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

⁵Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

⁶But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

⁷“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

⁸Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

¹²For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

⁶Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

⁵Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.

²⁵Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

⁴Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

¹⁷In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

¹¹Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.

¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

²For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

¹⁴For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

²³But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

¹⁷For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

³⁵Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.

⁴⁷I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

⁴⁸I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

¹⁰For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

¹What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

²For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

¹⁹I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

²⁵Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

⁶We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

¹⁸And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

²For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

⁷or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

⁸Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

¹⁸But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁷And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

⁹But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

¹⁰That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.