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Romans 7

1.7 12 The use of the Law, 6.24 And how Christ hath delivered us from it. 16 The infirmity of the faithful. 23 The dangerous fight between the flesh and the Spirit.
1.Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law,) that the aLaw hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2.*For the bwoman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, while he liveth: but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the man.
3.So then, if while the man liveth, she take another man, she shalbe called an *adulteress: but if man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she take another man.
4.So ye, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by the body of Christ, that ye should be unto another, even unto chim that is raised up from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5.For when we were din the flesh, the ^motions of sins, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
6.But now we are delivered from the Law, being dead eunto it, wherein we were holden, that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7.fWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid. Nay, I knew not sin, but by the Law: for I had not known glust, except the Law had said, *Thou shalt not lust.
8.But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is dead.
9.For I once hwas alive, without the Law: but when the commandment came, sin revived,
10.But I died: and the same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death.
11.For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and thereby slew me.
12.Wherefore the Law is *holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good.
13.Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid: but sin, that it might iappear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sin might be out of measure sinful by the commandment .
14.For we know that the Law kis spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15.For I allow not that which I do: for what I lwould, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.
16.If I do then that which I would not, I consent to the Law, that it is good.
17.Now then, it is no more I, that do mit, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
18.For I know, that in me, that is, in my ^flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.
19.For I do not the good thing, which I would, nbut the evil, which I would not, that do I.
20.Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
21.I find then by the Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22.For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the oinner man:
23.But I see another ^law in my pmembers, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin, which is in my members.
24.O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the qbody of this death!
25.I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then I myself in my rmind serve the Law of God, but in my sflesh the law of sin.

Notes

1-a.
Meaning the moral Law.
2-*.
1 Cor. 7.39
2-b.
Both in this first marriage and in the second, the husband and the wife must be considered within ourselves: the first husband was Sin, and our flesh was the wife: their children were the fruits of the flesh, Gal. 5.19. In the second marriage the Spirit is the husband, the new creature is the wife, and their children are the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22.
3-M.
at. 5.32
4-c.
Which is the Spirit or the second husband.
5-^.
Or, affections
5-d.
When we were destitute of the Spirit of God.
6-e.
Meaning to sin, our first husband.
7-*.
Exod. 20.17, Deut. 5.21
7-f.
There is nothing more enemy to sin then the Law: if so be therefore that sin rage more by reason thereof then before, why should it be imputed to the Law which discloses the freights of sin her enemy?
7-g.
Which is an inward vice not openly known.
9-h.
He thought himself to be alive, when he knew not the Law.
12-*.
I Tim. 1.8
13-i.
Sin being disclosed by the Law, is so much more detestable, because it turns the goodness of the Law to our destruction.
14-k.
So that it can judge the affections of the heart.
15-l.
He is not able to do that which he desires to do, and therefore is far from the true perfection.
17-m.
He doeth not excuse himself, but shows that he is not able to accomplish the good desire which is in him.
18-^.
Or, in my nature
19-n.
The flesh stays even the most perfect to run forward as the spirit wishes.
22-o.
That is, in my spirit.
23-^.
Or, commandment.
23-p.
Even the corruption which yet remains.
24-q.
This fleshly lump of sin and death.
25-r.
In that part which is regenerate.
25-s.
Which is the part corrupted.