1 an ignoratis fratres scientibus enim legem loquor
quia lex in homine dominatur quanto tempore vivit
2 nam quae sub viro est mulier vivente viro alligata est legi
si autem mortuus fuerit vir soluta est a lege viri
3 igitur vivente viro vocabitur adultera si fuerit cum alio viro
si autem mortuus fuerit vir eius liberata est a lege
ut non sit adultera si fuerit cum alio viro
4 itaque fratres mei et vos mortificati estis legi per corpus Christi
ut sitis alterius qui ex mortuis resurrexit
ut fructificaremus Deo
5 cum enim essemus in carne
passiones peccatorum quae per legem erant
operabantur in membris nostris ut fructificarent morti
6 nunc autem soluti sumus a lege morientes in quo
detinebamur
ita ut serviamus in novitate spiritus et non in vetustate litterae
7 quid ergo dicemus
lex peccatum est absit
sed peccatum non cognovi nisi per legem
nam concupiscentiam nesciebam nisi lex diceret
non concupisces
8 occasione autem accepta
peccatum per mandatum operatum est in me omnem concupiscentiam
sine lege enim peccatum mortuum erat
9 ego autem vivebam sine lege aliquando
sed cum venisset mandatum peccatum revixit
10 ego autem mortuus sum
et inventum est mihi mandatum quod erat ad vitam hoc esse ad mortem
11 nam peccatum occasione accepta per mandatum seduxit me
et per illud occidit
12 itaque lex quidem sancta
et mandatum sanctum et iustum et bonum
13 quod ergo bonum est mihi factum est mors absit
sed peccatum ut appareat peccatum
per bonum mihi operatum est mortem
ut fiat supra modum peccans peccatum per mandatum
14 scimus enim quod lex spiritalis est
ego autem carnalis sum venundatus sub peccato
15 quod enim operor non intellego
non enim quod volo hoc ago
sed quod odi illud facio
16 si autem quod nolo illud facio
consentio legi quoniam bona
17 nunc autem iam non ego operor illud
sed quod habitat in me peccatum
18 scio enim quia non habitat in me hoc est in carne mea
bonum
nam velle adiacet mihi
perficere autem bonum non invenio
19 non enim quod volo bonum hoc facio
sed quod nolo malum hoc ago
20 si autem quod nolo illud facio non ego operor illud
sed quod habitat in me peccatum
21 invenio igitur legem volenti mihi facere bonum
quoniam mihi malum adiacet
22 condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem
23 video autem aliam legem in membris meis
repugnantem legi mentis meae
et captivantem me in lege peccati quae est in membris meis
24 infelix ego homo
quis me liberabit de corpore mortis huius
25 gratia Dei per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum
igitur ego ipse mente servio legi Dei carne autem legi peccati
1 Know 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? 2 For 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. 3 So 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. 4 Wherefore, 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. 5 For 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. 6 But 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.
7 What 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. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me . 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was 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. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For 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. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would 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 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I 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.