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Romans 7

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Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the law--that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

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For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

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So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.

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But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

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But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.

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Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

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For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

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Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

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And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

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As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

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I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

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For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing.

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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

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So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

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For in my inner being I delight in God's law;

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but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 8

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

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because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

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For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,

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in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

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Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

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The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

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the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

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Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

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You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

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But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

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Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.

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For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

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because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

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For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, <"Abba,> Father."

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The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

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Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

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The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

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Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?

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But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

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And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

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And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

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What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

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Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

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Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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