Romans 7 - Evangelical Heritage Version - 2021（EHV）

1Or don't you know, brothers (since I am speaking to those who know the law), that a law has jurisdiction over a person only as long as he lives?

2For example, a married woman is bound to her husband by law as long as he is alive, but if he dies, she is released from this law regarding her husband.

3So then, she will be labeled an adulteress if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from this law, and she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

4In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death in regard to the law by the body of Christ, so that you may be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce fruit for God.

5For when we were in the flesh, strong sinful desires stirred up by the law were at work in our members, with the result that we produced fruit that results in death.

6But now we have been released from the law by dying to what held us in its grip, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the letter of the law.

The Law Stirs Up My Sinful Nature

7What will we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have recognized sin except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” at work: When I want to do good, evil is present with me.

22I certainly delight in God's law according to my inner self,

23but I see a different law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin, which is present in my members.

24What a miserable wretch I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my sinful flesh I serve the law of sin.