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, Thou shalt not covet.
[8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought 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 revived, and I died.
[10] And the commandment,
which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
[11] For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me.
[12] Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.
[13] Was then that which is good made death unto 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 unto the law that it is good.
[17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me.
[18] For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth 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
dwelleth 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 shall 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.
Rom.8
[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
[2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and death.
[3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
[4] That the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
[5] For they that are
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
[6]
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
[7] Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
[8] So then
they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
[9] But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
[10] And
if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
[11]
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
[12] Therefore, brethren,
we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
[13] For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but
if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
[14] For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
[15] For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
[16] The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
[17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
[18]
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us.
[19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of
the sons of God.
[20] For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him
who hath subjected the same in hope,
[21] Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
[22] For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
[23] And not only they, but ourselves also,
which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,
to wit, the redemption of our body.
[24] For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for
what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
[25] But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with
patience wait for it.
[26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
[27]
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God.
[28] And we know that all things work together for good to