Romans 7

Dying to the Law through Christ Romans 7:4–6

⁴Verse 4. Therefore, 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. ⁵Verse 5. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. ⁶Verse 6. But 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.

Sin Revealed through the Law Romans 7:7–13

⁷Verse 7. What 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.” ⁸Verse 8. But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. ⁹Verse 9. I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰Verse 10. The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; ¹¹Verse 11. for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

¹²Verse 12. Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³Verse 13. Did 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.

The Struggle with Sin Romans 7:14–24

¹⁴Verse 14. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. ¹⁵Verse 15. For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. ¹⁶Verse 16. But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. ¹⁷Verse 17. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. ¹⁸Verse 18. For 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.

¹⁹Verse 19. For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice. ²⁰Verse 20. But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. ²¹Verse 21. I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. ²²Verse 22. For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, ²³Verse 23. but 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.

²⁴Verse 24. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Thankfulness for Deliverance Romans 7:25

²⁵Verse 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.