Romans 7:1-11

¹Brethren, whether ye know not; for I speak to men that know the law; for the law hath lordship in a man, as long time as he liveth?

²For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered or is unbound from the law of the husband.

³Therefore she shall be called adulteress, if she be with another man, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, that she be not adulteress, if she be with another man.

⁴And so, my brethren, ye be made dead to the law by or through the body of Christ, that ye be of another, that rose again from death, that ye bear fruit to God.

⁵For when we were in flesh, passions of sins, that were by the law, wrought in our members, to bear fruit to death.

⁶But now we be unbound from the law of death, in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

⁷What therefore shall we say? The law is sin? God forbid. But I knew not sin, but by the law; for I knew not that coveting was sin, but for the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

⁸And through occasion taken, sin by the commandment hath wrought in me all covetousness; for without the law, sin was dead.

⁹And I lived without the law sometime; but when the commandment was come or had come, sin lived again. But I was dead,

¹⁰and this commandment that was to life, was found to me, to be to death.

¹¹For sin, through occasion taken by the commandment, deceived me, and by that it slew me.