Romans 7
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1Know 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?
Romans 7:1
2For 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.
Romans 7:2
3So 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.
Romans 7:3
4Wherefore, 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.
Romans 7:4
5For 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.
Romans 7:5
6But 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.
Romans 7:6
7What 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.
Romans 7:7
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans 7:8
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:9
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Romans 7:10
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Romans 7:11
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:12
13Was 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.
Romans 7:13
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:14
15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Romans 7:15
16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Romans 7:16
17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:17
18For 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.
Romans 7:18
19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans 7:19
20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:20
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:21
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:22
23But 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.
Romans 7:23
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:24
25I 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.
Romans 7:25
Chapter 7
Cross References
Romans 7:1
Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but unde...Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; tha...Romans 6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized...Romans 10:1Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be...Proverbs 6:23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction...
Romans 7:2
Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be...1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband b...1 Corinthians 7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the...Numbers 30:7And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it:...
Romans 7:3
Exodus 20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.Matthew 5:32But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause...Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.John 8:3And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and wh...Deuteronomy 22:22¶ If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall bo...
Romans 7:4
1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead...Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good...Isaiah 54:5For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer...Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law...Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the churc...
Romans 7:5
Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our fl...Galatians 5:16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the fle...Galatians 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust...Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is writte...Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yi...
Romans 7:6
Galatians 3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which...2 Corinthians 3:6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, bu...Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ...Romans 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was...Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a wom...
Romans 7:7
Romans 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight...Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s...Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.Deuteronomy 5:21Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy nei...1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Romans 7:8
Romans 7:11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.James 1:14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Romans 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it mig...
Romans 7:9
Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is writte...Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law...Romans 7:11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.Romans 7:21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.Galatians 2:19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Romans 7:10
Leviticus 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he sha...2 Corinthians 3:7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious,...Romans 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which d...Galatians 3:12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he...
Romans 7:11
Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the...Romans 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupi...Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hard...James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but dece...Isaiah 44:20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deli...
Romans 7:12
1 Timothy 1:8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;Psalms 119:137Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.Psalms 19:7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD i...Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Psalms 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Cross References
Romans 7:1
Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but unde...Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; tha...Romans 6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized...Romans 10:1Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be...Proverbs 6:23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction...
Romans 7:2
Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be...1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband b...1 Corinthians 7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the...Numbers 30:7And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it:...
Romans 7:3
Exodus 20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.Matthew 5:32But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause...Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.John 8:3And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and wh...Deuteronomy 22:22¶ If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall bo...
Romans 7:4
1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead...Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good...Isaiah 54:5For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer...Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law...Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the churc...
Romans 7:5
Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our fl...Galatians 5:16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the fle...Galatians 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust...Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is writte...Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yi...
Romans 7:6
Galatians 3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which...2 Corinthians 3:6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, bu...Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ...Romans 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was...Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a wom...
Romans 7:7
Romans 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight...Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s...Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.Deuteronomy 5:21Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy nei...1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Romans 7:8
Romans 7:11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.James 1:14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Romans 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it mig...
Romans 7:9
Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is writte...Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law...Romans 7:11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.Romans 7:21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.Galatians 2:19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Romans 7:10
Leviticus 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he sha...2 Corinthians 3:7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious,...Romans 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which d...Galatians 3:12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he...
Romans 7:11
Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the...Romans 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupi...Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hard...James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but dece...Isaiah 44:20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deli...
Romans 7:12
1 Timothy 1:8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;Psalms 119:137Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.Psalms 19:7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD i...Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Psalms 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.