Romans 7 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

Believers United to Christ

7 Or do you not know, (A)brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For (B)the married woman is bound by law to her [a]husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law [b]concerning the husband. 3 So 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.

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were (C)made to die (D)to the Law (E)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. 5 For while we were (F)in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were (G)aroused by the Law, were at work (H)in [c]the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been (I)released from the Law, having (J)died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in (K)newness of (L)the [d]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

7 (M)What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? (N)May it never be! On the contrary, (O)I would not have come to know sin except [e]through the Law; for I would not have known about [f]coveting if the Law had not said, “(P)You shall not [g]covet.” 8 But sin, (Q)taking opportunity (R)through the commandment, produced in me [h]coveting of every kind; for (S)apart [i]from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart [j]from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was [k](T)to result in life, proved [l]to result in death for me; 11 for sin, (U)taking an opportunity (V)through the commandment, (W)deceived me and through it killed me. 12 (X)So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? (Y)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.

The Conflict of Two Natures

14 For we know that the Law is (Z)spiritual, but I am (AA)of flesh, (AB)sold [m](AC)into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, (AD)I do not understand; for I am not practicing (AE)what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with (AF)the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, (AG)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my (AH)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For (AI)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, (AJ)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then (AK)the [n]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God [o]in (AL)the inner man, 23 but I see (AM)a different law in [p]the members of my body, waging war against the (AN)law of my mind and making me a prisoner [q]of (AO)the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [r](AP)the body of this (AQ)death? 25 (AR)Thanks 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 (AS)the law of sin.

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:2 Lit living husband
  2. Romans 7:2 Lit of
  3. Romans 7:5 Lit our members to bear
  4. Romans 7:6 Or spirit
  5. Romans 7:7 Or through law
  6. Romans 7:7 Or lust
  7. Romans 7:7 Or lust
  8. Romans 7:8 Or lust
  9. Romans 7:8 Or from law
  10. Romans 7:9 Or from law
  11. Romans 7:10 Lit to life
  12. Romans 7:10 Lit to death
  13. Romans 7:14 Lit under sin
  14. Romans 7:21 Lit law
  15. Romans 7:22 Or concerning
  16. Romans 7:23 Lit my members
  17. Romans 7:23 Lit in
  18. Romans 7:24 Or this body of death

Cross references

  1. Romans 7:1 : Rom 1:13
  2. Romans 7:2 : 1 Cor 7:39
  3. Romans 7:4 : Rom 6:2; 7:6
  4. Romans 7:4 : Rom 8:2; Gal 2:19; 5:18
  5. Romans 7:4 : Col 1:22
  6. Romans 7:5 : Rom 8:8f; 2 Cor 10:3
  7. Romans 7:5 : Rom 7:7f
  8. Romans 7:5 : Rom 6:13, 21, 23
  9. Romans 7:6 : Rom 7:2
  10. Romans 7:6 : Rom 6:2
  11. Romans 7:6 : Rom 6:4
  12. Romans 7:6 : Rom 2:29
  13. Romans 7:7 : Rom 3:5
  14. Romans 7:7 : Luke 20:16
  15. Romans 7:7 : Rom 3:20; 4:15; 5:20
  16. Romans 7:7 : Ex 20:17; Deut 5:21
  17. Romans 7:8 : Rom 7:11
  18. Romans 7:8 : Rom 3:20; 7:11
  19. Romans 7:8 : 1 Cor 15:56
  20. Romans 7:10 : Lev 18:5; Luke 10:28; Rom 10:5; Gal 3:12
  21. Romans 7:11 : Rom 7:8
  22. Romans 7:11 : Rom 3:20; 7:8
  23. Romans 7:11 : Gen 3:13
  24. Romans 7:12 : Rom 7:16; 1 Tim 1:8
  25. Romans 7:13 : Luke 20:16
  26. Romans 7:14 : 1 Cor 3:1
  27. Romans 7:14 : 1 Cor 3:1
  28. Romans 7:14 : 1 Kin 21:20, 25; 2 Kin 17:17; Rom 6:6; Gal 4:3
  29. Romans 7:14 : Rom 3:9
  30. Romans 7:15 : John 15:15
  31. Romans 7:15 : Rom 7:19; Gal 5:17
  32. Romans 7:16 : Rom 7:12; 1 Tim 1:8
  33. Romans 7:17 : Rom 7:20
  34. Romans 7:18 : John 3:6; Rom 7:25; 8:3
  35. Romans 7:19 : Rom 7:15
  36. Romans 7:20 : Rom 7:17
  37. Romans 7:21 : Rom 7:23, 25; 8:2
  38. Romans 7:22 : 2 Cor 4:16; Eph 3:16; 1 Pet 3:4
  39. Romans 7:23 : Rom 6:19; Gal 5:17; James 4:1; 1 Pet 2:11
  40. Romans 7:23 : Rom 7:25
  41. Romans 7:23 : Rom 7:21, 25; 8:2
  42. Romans 7:24 : Rom 6:6; Col 2:11
  43. Romans 7:24 : Rom 8:2
  44. Romans 7:25 : 1 Cor 15:57
  45. Romans 7:25 : Rom 7:21, 23; 8:2

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