Romans 7:1-11

¹Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a man as long as he lives?

²For the woman who is under a man has been bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.

³So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes married to a different husband; but if her husband should die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become married to a different husband.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit to God.

⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

⁶But now we were released from the law, having died in that to which we were held fast, so that we should serve as slaves in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

⁸But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of lust. For apart from the law sin was dead.

⁹For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

¹⁰And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

¹¹For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it, killed me.