Romans 7 NKJV ISV Parallel

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1Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

1Don't you realize, brothers—for I am speaking to people who know the Law—that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?

2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

2For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

3So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.

3So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this Law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man.

4Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

4In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

5For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

6But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

6But now we have been released from the Law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old writings.

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

7What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

8But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

8But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead.

9I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

9At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life,

10And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

10and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me.

12Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

12So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.

13Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

13Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin.

15For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

15I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

16If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

16Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good.

17But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

17As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

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

19For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

20Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

20But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

21I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.

21So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

22For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being,

23But 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.

23but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?

25I 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.

25Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.

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