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Romans

CHAPTER 7

You're dead to the law (so you can marry Jesus)
7:1-6

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

You must obey the law as long as you live.

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Just as a woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives.

But when her husband dies, she's free of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

If a woman marries another man while her husband is still alive, she's an adulteress.

But when her husband dies, she's free to marry another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

It's like that with you.

You are dead to the law, [1]

so now you can marry Jesus.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

The law no longer applies to us, because we are dead to it.

There's nothing good in me
7:7-25

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

So what can I say then?

Is the law sin?

No, the law tells us what sin is.

I wouldn't know what lust was,

unless the law told me not to covet.

Without the law, sin is dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Once I was alive without the law,

but then the commandments came, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

The commandment became like death to me.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

And sin killed me.

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

The law is holy and commandments are good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

So did something good kill me?

No, sin killed me by that which is good.

The commandment made sin exceedingly sinful.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

I don't do what I'd like to do.

And I hate what I do.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

There's nothing good in me.

19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

I don't do the good that I'd like to do.

But I do the evil that I don't want to do.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Even when I do good, there is evil in me.

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

There's another law in my members that wars against my mind,

and makes me a slave to the law of sin in my members.

24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

I'm such a wretched man.

Who will save me from this body of death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

With my mind I serve God.

But with my flesh I serve sin.

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