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? 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. 3So then if, while her husband lives, she becomes another man’s, 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 becomes another man’s. 4Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you may become Another’s; to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit unto God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin which were through the Law were at work in our members to bear fruit unto death. 6But now we have been loosed from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we should serve in the newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Let it not be! On the contrary, I would not have understood sin except through the Law. For I would not have known lust unless the Law had said, You shall not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, produced in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead. 9I was alive once apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10And the commandment, which was unto life, I found to be unto death. 11For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13Has then that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I do not wish to do, that I do; moreover, what I hate, that I do. 16If, then, I do what I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law that it is good. 17But now, it is no longer I doing it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to desire is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, that I practice. 20Now if I do what I do not wish to do, it is no longer I doing it, but sin that dwells in me. 21I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one desiring to do good. 22For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man. 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. 24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this 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.