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Romans 7 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:1 -

Or do you not know, [fn]brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the Law), that the Law has jurisdiction [to rule] over a person as long as he lives?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:2 - For the married woman [as an example] is bound and remains bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released and exempt from the law concerning her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:3 - Accordingly, she will be designated as an adulteress if she [fn]unites herself to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law [regarding marriage], so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

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Therefore, my [fn]fellow believers, you too died to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:5 - When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:6 - But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died [through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve [God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter [of the Law].

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What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known [for example] about coveting [what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, “YOU SHALL NOT COVET.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:8 - But sin, finding an opportunity through the commandment [to express itself] produced in me every kind of coveting and selfish desire. For without the Law sin is dead [the recognition of sin is inactive].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:9 - I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:10 - And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:11 - For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and [fn]using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:12 - So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

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Did that which is good [the Law], then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order that it might be revealed as sin, was producing death in me by [using] this good thing [as a weapon], so that through the commandment sin would become exceedingly sinful.

The Conflict of Two Natures

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We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:15 - For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity].

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:16 - Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent).

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:17 - So now [if that is the case, then] it is no longer I who do it [the disobedient thing which I despise], but the sin [nature] which lives in me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:18 - For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:19 - For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:20 - But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me.

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So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:22 - For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature],

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:23 - but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:24 - Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:25 - Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness, my sinful capacity—I serve] the law of sin.
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AMP Footnotes
Lit brethren.
Lit becomes another man’s, probably referring to an illicit, sexual relationship. Paul uses the same language at the end of the verse, but there he probably means sexual intimacy within a new marriage.
Lit brethren.
Lit through it killed me.
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