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Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?
7:2
Waiting
For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.
7:3
Waiting
So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.
7:4
Waiting
So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by ye body of Christ, that ye should be vnto an other, euen vnto him that is raised vp from the dead, that we should bring foorth fruite vnto God.
7:5
Waiting
For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.
7:6
Waiting
But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.
7:7
Waiting
What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.
7:8
Waiting
But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead.
7:9
Waiting
For I once was aliue, without the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,
7:10
Waiting
But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.
7:11
Waiting
For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.
7:12
Waiting
Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.
7:13
Waiting
Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement.
7:14
Waiting
For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
7:15
Waiting
For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.
7:16
Waiting
If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.
7:17
Waiting
Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.
7:18
Waiting
For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.
7:19
Waiting
For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.
7:20
Waiting
Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.
7:21
Waiting
I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.
7:22
Waiting
For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:
7:23
Waiting
But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.
7:24
Waiting
O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!
7:25
Waiting
I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.