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          DASV: Romans 7    

1 Or do you not realize, brothers (for I speak to those who
know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person
for as long as he lives?
2 For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to
her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband dies,
she is released from the law with respect to her husband.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while the husband
lives, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband
dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not an
adulteress even though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the
body of Christ, so that you may be joined to another, to him
who was raised from the dead, so that we might produce
fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which
were aroused by the law, worked in our members to produce
fruit to death.
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to
what held us captive, so that we may serve in new life of
the spirit, and not in oldness of the written code.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Yet if
it had not been for the law I would not have known what it is
to covet, except the law had said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, taking the opportunity, produced in me through the
commandment all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law sin
is dead.
9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but when the
commandment came, sin came to life, and I died.
10 So I found that the commandment, which was to bring life, in
fact brought death.
11 For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment deceived
me, and through it killed me,
12 so that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous,
and good.
13 Did that which is good then become death to me? Certainly not.
But sin, so that it might be exposed to be sin, worked death
in me through that which was good, so that through the
commandment sin might become absolutely sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh,
sold into slavery to sin.
15 For I do not really know what I am doing. For what I want to
do, is what I do not do; but what I hate, is the very thing
that I do.
16 But if what I do not want to do, is what I do, then I agree
that the law is good.
17 So now it is no more I who do it, but sin that lives in me.
18 For I know that in me lives no good thing, that is, in my flesh,
for the desire to do what is good is in me, but I cannot
actually do it.
19 For the good that I want to do I do not do; but the evil that
I do not want to do, is what I actually practice.
20 But if what I do not want to do is what I do, it is no more
I who do it, but sin that lives in me.
21 I find then this principle: that when I want to do good,
evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
23 But I see a different law in my body members, making war
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin that is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this
body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then
with my mind, I myself serve the law of God; but with my
flesh I serve the law of sin.

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