¹ + Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as+ + he lives? ² For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is released from the law of her husband. ³ So then+ if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she will 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. ⁴ why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forward fruit to 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 forward fruit to death. ⁶ But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead+ in which+ we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. ⁷ What will 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, You will not covet. ⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. ⁹ For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin reviled, and I died. ¹⁰ And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found+ to be to death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed [me]. ¹² why+ the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Was then that which is good made death to 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. 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 to the law that it is good. ¹⁷ Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ¹⁹ For+ 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 dwells in me. 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: 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. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from the body of this 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.