Thematic Bible

Romans 7:1

Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives?

Romans 7:2

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.

Romans 7:3

Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Romans 7:6

And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 7:7

What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

Romans 7:8

And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead.

Romans 7:9

And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

Romans 7:10

And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.

Romans 7:11

For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me.

Romans 7:12

Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:13

Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7:15

For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do.

Romans 7:16

And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Romans 7:17

And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me.

Romans 7:18

For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.

Romans 7:19

For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do.

Romans 7:20

And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me.

Romans 7:21

I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me.

Romans 7:22

For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within:

Romans 7:23

And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

Romans 7:24

I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?

Romans 7:25

I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.