2. For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:
3. so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
4. So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
5. For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
6. but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7. What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
8. but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.
9. But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
10. And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
11. for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12. So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13. Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15. For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
16. But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.
17. Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.