Part 7

45:007:006 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

45:007:007 What shall 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.

45:007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

45:007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

45:007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

45:007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

45:007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

45:007:013 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.

45:007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

45:007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

45:007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

45:007:017 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

45:007:018 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.

45:007:019 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

45:007:020 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

45:007:021 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

45:007:022 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

45:007:023 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.

45:007:024 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

45:007:025 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.

45:008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

45:008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

45:008:003 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:

45:008:004 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

45:008:005 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.

45:008:006 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

45:008:007 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

45:008:008 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.