Romans 7 : King James Version

7 1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that
know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as
he liveth? 2For the woman which hath an husband is bound
by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband
be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3So
then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she
is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be
married to another man. 4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also
are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit unto God. 5For when we were in
the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in
our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6But 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. 7What 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. 8But
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I
was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was
ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11For sin,
taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy,
and just, and good. 13Was 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. 14For we know
that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For
that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but
what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would
not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17Now then
it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18For
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. 19For the good that I would I do not:
but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do
that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good,
evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of
God after 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 shall 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.