| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? | 1Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? |
| 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. | 2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. |
| 3So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. | 3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man. |
| 4Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. | 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. |
| 5For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. | 5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. |
| 6But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. | 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. |
| 7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." | 7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” |
| 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. | 8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. |
| 9I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; | 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. |
| 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; | 10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. |
| 11for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. | 11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. |
| 12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. | 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. |
| 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. | 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. |
| 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. | 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. |
| 15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. | 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. |
| 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. | 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. |
| 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. | 17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. |
| 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. | 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. |
| 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not 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. |
| 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. | 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. |
| 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. | 21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. |
| 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, | 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. |
| 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. | 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. |
| 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? | 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? |
| 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. | 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. |
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