| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? | 1Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives? |
| 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. | 2For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband. |
| 3So 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. | 3So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress. |
| 4Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law 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. | 4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another--to Him who was raised from the dead--that we may bear fruit for God. |
| 5For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. | 5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death. |
| 6But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. | 6But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law. |
| 7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." | 7What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. |
| 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. | 8And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. |
| 9I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; | 9Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life |
| 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; | 10and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me. |
| 11for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. | 11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. |
| 12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. | 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. |
| 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? 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. | 13Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure. |
| 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. | 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin's power. |
| 15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. | 15For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. |
| 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. | 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. |
| 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. | 17So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. |
| 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. | 18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. |
| 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. | 19For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. |
| 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. | 20Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. |
| 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. | 21So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. |
| 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, | 22For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God's law. |
| 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. | 23But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. |
| 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? | 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body? |
| 25Thanks 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 the law of sin. | 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin. |
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