1 Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? Compare verse7 commentaries
2 For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. Compare verse8 commentaries
3 So then if, while her husband lives, 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. Compare verse4 commentaries
4 Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. Compare verse9 commentaries
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death. Compare verse6 commentaries
6 But 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. Compare verse11 commentaries
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet. Compare verse15 commentaries
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Compare verse14 commentaries
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Compare verse11 commentaries
13 Was then that which is good made death to 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. Compare verse9 commentaries
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Compare verse11 commentaries
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Compare verse6 commentaries
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. Compare verse6 commentaries
23 But 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. Compare verse17 commentaries
25 I 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. Compare verse10 commentaries