Romans 7

1Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?Cross-references: Ezra 7:25 · Prov 6:23 · Rom 1:13 · Rom 2:17 · Rom 6:3 · Rom 6:14 · +5 more

2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.Cross-references: Gen 2:23 · Num 30:7 · 1Cor 7:4 · 1Cor 7:39

3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.Cross-references: Ex 20:14 · Lev 20:10 · Num 5:13 · Deut 22:22 · Ruth 2:13 · 1Sam 25:39 · +4 more

4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.Cross-references: Ps 45:10 · Isa 54:5 · Isa 62:5 · Hos 2:19 · Matt 26:26 · John 3:29 · +26 more

5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.Cross-references: Matt 15:19 · John 3:6 · Rom 1:26 · Rom 3:20 · Rom 4:15 · Rom 5:20 · +21 more

6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.Cross-references: Ezek 11:19 · Ezek 36:26 · Rom 1:9 · Rom 2:27 · Rom 6:2 · Rom 6:4 · +16 more

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Ex 20:17 · Deut 5:21 · Josh 7:21 · 2Sam 11:2 · 1Ki 21:1 · +21 more

8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Cross-references: John 15:22 · John 15:24 · Rom 4:15 · Rom 5:20 · Rom 7:11 · Rom 7:13 · +3 more

9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.Cross-references: Ps 40:12 · Matt 5:21 · Matt 15:4 · Matt 19:20 · Mark 7:8 · Luke 10:25 · +14 more

10The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;Cross-references: Lev 18:5 · Ezek 20:11 · Ezek 20:13 · Ezek 20:21 · Luke 10:27 · Rom 10:5 · +2 more

11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Isa 44:20 · Jer 17:9 · Jer 49:16 · Obad 1:3 · Rom 7:8 · +5 more

12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.Cross-references: Deut 4:8 · Deut 10:12 · Neh 9:13 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 119:38 · Ps 119:86 · +9 more

13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.Cross-references: Rom 5:20 · Rom 7:8 · Rom 8:3 · Gal 3:21 · James 1:13

14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.Cross-references: Gen 37:27 · Gen 37:36 · Gen 40:15 · Ex 21:2 · Ex 22:3 · Lev 19:18 · +27 more

15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:46 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 19:12 · Ps 36:4 · Ps 65:3 · Ps 97:10 · +25 more

16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.Cross-references: Ps 119:127 · Rom 7:12 · Rom 7:14 · Rom 7:22 · 1Tim 1:8

17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.Cross-references: Rom 4:7 · Rom 7:18 · Rom 7:20 · Rom 7:23 · 2Cor 8:12 · Phil 3:8 · +1 more

18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · Ps 51:5 · +25 more

19For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.Cross-references: Rom 7:15

20But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.Cross-references: Rom 7:17

21I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:18 · Ps 19:12 · Ps 40:12 · Ps 65:3 · Ps 119:37 · Ps 119:133 · +13 more

22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 1:2 · Ps 19:8 · Ps 40:8 · Ps 119:16 · Ps 119:24 · +19 more

23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.Cross-references: Ps 142:7 · Eccl 7:20 · Rom 6:13 · Rom 6:19 · Rom 7:5 · Rom 7:14 · +10 more

24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?Cross-references: Deut 22:26 · 1Ki 8:38 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 38:2 · Ps 38:8 · +29 more

25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.Cross-references: Ps 107:15 · Ps 116:16 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 49:9 · Isa 49:13 · Matt 1:21 · +13 more