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 7:1 ¶ BUT know you not, my brethren, for to those who know the law I speak, that the law has authority over a man as long as he liveth?

 7:1 Or do ye not know, my Brethren. -(for I am speaking to them that know the law,)- that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he is alive?

 7:2 as a woman who is bound in law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.

 7:2 Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her husband, as long as he is alive: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband.

 7:3 But if, while her husband lives, she adhere to another man, she becometh an adulteress; but if her husband shall die, she is freed from the law, and is not an adulteress, though she become (the wife) of another man.

 7:3 And if, while her husband is alive, she should adhere to another man, she would become an adulteress: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law; and would not be an adulteress though joined to another man.

 7:4 And now, my brethren, you also are dead to the law, through the body of the Meshiha, that you should be married to another, (namely, to) him who rose from the dead, that you may render fruit unto Aloha.

 7:4 And now, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye might be joined to another, [even] to him who arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto God.

 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the affections of sin, which are against the law, wrought powerfully in our members to yield fruits unto death;

 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.

 7:6 but now we are loosed from the law, and are dead to that which held us, that we might serve henceforth in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the writing.

 7:6 But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that we might henceforth serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

 7:7 What then, say we the law is sin? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath said, Thou shalt not covet.

 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:

 7:8 And by this commandment sin found for itself an occasion, and completed in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

 7:8 and by this commandment, sin found occasion, and perfected in me all concupiscence: for without the law, sin was dead.

 7:9 But I was alive without the law formerly: but when the commandment came, sin lived, and I died.

 7:9 And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died;

 7:10 And that commandment of life was found to me (to tend) unto death.

 7:10 and the commandment of life was found by me [to be] unto death.

 7:11 For sin, by the occasion it found through the commandment, deceived me, and thereby killed me.

 7:11 For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me.

 7:12 The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

 7:12 Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.

 7:13 The good, then, unto me, unto death was made? Not so. But sin, that it might be seen what sin is, by the good (law) effected death in me, that sin might be the more condemned by the commandment.

 7:13 Did that which is good, therefore, become death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of that good [law]; that sin might the more be condemned, by means of the commandment.

 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold unto sin.

 7:14 For we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold to sin.

 7:15 For what I work, I know not; and not that which I will, I do; but what I hate, that I do.

 7:15 For what I am doing, I know not: and what I would, I do not perform; but what I hate, that I do.

 7:16 And if the thing that I would not, I do, I witness of the law that it is good.

 7:16 And if I do what I would not, I testify of the law, that it is right.

 7:17 But now it is not I who work this, but sin which dwelleth in me.

 7:17 And then, it is no more I who do that thing; but sin, which dwelleth in me.

 7:18 For I know that in me, but that is in my flesh, good dwelleth not; because to will the good is easy to me, but to perform it I find not.

 7:18 For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) good dwelleth not: because, to approve the good, is easy for me; but to do it, I am unable.

 7:19 For the good that I will to do, I do not; but the evil that I will not to do, that do I.

 7:19 For I do not perform the good, which I would perform; but the bad, which I would not perform, that I do perform.

 7:20 And if the thing that I will not I do, it is not I who do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

 7:20 And if I do what I would not, it is not I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

 7:21 I find then a law which accordeth with my mind, that willeth to do good, because evil is near to me.

 7:21 I find therefore a law coinciding with my conscience, which assenteth to my doing good, whereas evil is near to me.

 7:22 For I rejoice in the law of Aloha in the interior man;

 7:22 For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior man.

 7:23 but I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

 7:23 But I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my conscience, and maketh me a captive to the law of sin which existeth in my members

 7:24 Miserable son of man am I! who will deliver me from this body of death?

 7:24 O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

 7:25 I give thanks to Aloha! (it is) by the hand of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. Now then, I in my mind am the servant of the law of Aloha, but in my flesh I am the servant of the law of sin.

 7:25 I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah [I shall be rescued.] {7:26} Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin.