e law through
the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to
him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to
God. (5)For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which
were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto
death. (6)But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that
wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not
in oldness of the letter.

(7)What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not
known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the
law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. (8)But sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without
law, sin is dead.

(9)And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died. (10)And the commandment, which was for life,
that I found to be for death. (11)For sin, taking occasion by the
commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

(12)So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good.

(13)Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But
sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is
good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

(14)For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under
sin. (15)For what I perform, I know not; for not what I desire, that
do I; but what I hate, that I do. (16)But if what I desire not, that I
do, I consent to the law that it is good.

(17)Now then, it is no longer I that perform it, but the sin that
dwells in me.

(18)For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any
good; for to desire is present with me; but to perform that which is
good I find not. (19)For the good that I desire, I do not; but the
evil that I desire not, that I do. (20)But if what I desire not, that
I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that dwells in me.

(21)I find then the law, that, when I desire to do good, evil is
present with me. (22)For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man. (23)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. (24)Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from
the body of this death? (25)I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the
flesh the law of