¹ Or are you° ignorant, brethren (for$ I am speaking to those knowing the law), The law has lordship over a man inasmuch time as he is living?

² For$ the woman under the husband has been bound by the law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been done-away-with {i.e., discharged} from the law of the husband.

³ Therefore, consequently$, if the husband is living, if she becomes joined to a different man, she will be divinely-called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress, even if she had become joined to a different man.

⁴ So-then my brethren, you° were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; $that$ you° should become joined to a different one, that is to the one who was raised up from the dead, in-order-that we should bear-fruit to God.

⁵ For$ when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions were working in our members through the law, $that$ they might bear-fruit to the death.

⁶ But now we have been done-away-with {i.e., were discharged} from the law, died in which we were being held; so-as for us to be enslaved in newness of spirit and not in oldness of writing.

⁷ Therefore, what will we say? Is the law sin? Let it not happen! But, I did not know the sin, except through the law; for$ I also did not know the lusting {O.T. desire (but with an object) and elsewhere} , except that the law was saying, Do not lust. {Exo 20:17}

⁸ But the sin took a starting-point and worked in me through the commandment all manner of lust; for$ separate from the law sin is dead.

⁹ But I was previously living separate from the law, but when the commandment came, the sin lived again through me and I died,

¹⁰ and the commandment (the one into life) was found in me to be into death;

¹¹ for$ the sin took a starting-point through the commandment and deceived me and through it, it killed me.

¹² So-then the law indeed is holy and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

¹³ Therefore, what is the good thing to me, has it become death? Let it not happen! But the sin, in-order-that it might appear as sin, through what is the good thing to me, was working death; in-order-that the sin might become surpassingly sinful through the commandment.

¹⁴ For$ we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, I have been sold$ under the sin.

¹⁵ For$ I do not know what I am working. For$ I am practicing this thing which I do not will but instead I am doing$ this thing which I am hating.

¹⁶ But if I am doing$ this thing which I do not will, I acknowledge together-with the law, that it is good.

¹⁷ But now I no longer am working it, but the sin dwelling in me.

¹⁸ For$ I know that what is a good thing is not dwelling in me (this is: in my flesh); for$ it is lying-beside me to will it, but I am not finding the good thing to work it.

¹⁹ For$ I am not doing$ the good thing which I will, but instead I am practicing this evil thing which I do not will.

²⁰ But if I am doing$ this thing which I do not will, I am no longer working it, but the sin dwelling in me.

²¹ Consequently$, I find the law in me, the one willing to do$ the good thing, that the evil is lying-beside me.

²² For$ I delight-inwardly in the law of God according-to the inward man.

²³ But I am seeing a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and capturing me in the law of the sin, the one being in my members.

²⁴ O I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me out-of the body of this death?

²⁵ I am giving-thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, consequently$, I myself, indeed, serve$ the law of God in the mind, but I myself serve$ the law of sin in the flesh.