Romans 7

Romans 7:1

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Romans 7:2

• Thus a married
• For example, a married
• A married
• For example, by law a married
• For a married
• For the married

• woman is

• bound by
• bound by the

• law to her husband while he

• lives, but if
• lives. But if
• lives; but if
• is alive. But if
• is alive, but if
• is living; but if
• is living; but, if

• her husband

• dies
• dies,

• she
• then she

• is

• released from the
• free from the
• discharged from the

• law of
• law of the

• husband.
• marriage.

Romans 7:3

• So then, if
• So if

• she

• marries another
• is joined to another

• man while her husband

• is
• is still

• alive,
• living,

• shewill be

• called an adulteress; but, if
• called an adulteress; but if
• called an adulteress. But if

• her husband

• dies
• dies,

• sheis

• free from the
• free from that

• law. Then if she marries another

• man,
• man

• she

• is
• does

• not guilty of adultery.

Romans 7:4

• Therefore,
• In the same way,
• So,
• So then,

• my

• brothers,
• brothers and sisters,
• brethren,

• you

• also
• have
• also were

• died to the law through the body of

• Christ that
• Christ, that

• you

• might
• might be

• belong to another, to the
• belong to another, to

• one who
• him who

• was
• has been

• raised from the
• raised from

• dead in
• dead, in

• order that we

• might
• can
• may

• bear
• be used in

• fruit for
• fruit to
• service to

• God.

Romans 7:5

• For when we
• For while we
• When we

• were in the
• were living in the

• flesh, our sinful

• passions,
• passions
• desires,
• desires
• passions which

• aroused by the
• were through the
• stirred up by the

• law
• law,
• Law

• were at work in
• worked in

• our

• members to
• members, to
• bodies, to
• bodies to

• bear

• fruit for
• fruit to

• death.
• death,

Romans 7:6

• But now we have been

• released from the
• discharged from the

• Law,
• law,
• law, because
• law, since

• having
• we have

• died to that by which we were

• held; so that
• held, so that
• bound, so that

• we
• we may

• serve in the
• serve in
• serve

• newness of the
• new way of the
• new life of the

• Spirit and
• Spirit, and
• spirit, and
• Spirit,
• spirit,

• not in the
• not in
• not under the

• old,
• old
• oldness of the

• letter.
• written code.
• way of the written code.
• letter of the law.

Romans 7:7

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Romans 7:8

• But sin,
• but sin,
• But sin

• seizing an
• finding
• seizing the
• taking
• took

• opportunity through the
• opportunity in the
• advantage of the

• commandment,

• produced in
• wrought in

• me all
• me every

• kinds of
• manner of
• kind of

• coveting. For
• coveting: for
• covetousness.
• covetousness. For

• Apart from the
• apart from the
• apart from
• Apart from

• Law,
• law
• law,
• Law

• sin

• is
• lies
• was
• is a
• has no

• dead.
• power.
• dead thing.

Romans 7:9

• I
• And I

• was once alive

• apart from the
• apart from

• Law, but when the
• law; but when the
• Law; but when the
• law, but when the

• commandment

• came,
• came.

• Sin
• sin

• sprang to life,
• sprang to life
• revived and I died.
• revived and I died;
• revived, and I died;
• revived, and I died.
• came to life,
• came to life
• came to life, and I died.
• became alive;
• became alive
• began to live.
• began to live,
• sprang to life and I died.

Romans 7:10

• and I
• And I
• I

• died. The
• found that the

• commandment that
• commandment which
• command

• was

• intended to
• meant to
• supposed to

• bring life, but for

• me
• me,

• it brought

• death!
• death.
• death,
• death;
• me death.

Romans 7:11

• For sin
• for sin,
• For sin,
• Sin,
• Sin
• because sin,
• because sin

• seizing an
• seizing the
• finding

• opportunity through the
• opportunity, through the
• opportunity in the
• occasion, through the
• occasion through the

• commandment.
• commandment
• commandment,

• deceived
• It deceived
• it deceived
• beguiled
• tricked

• me and, through it,
• me, and through it
• me and through it
• me, and
• me and
• me, and through the commandment
• me and by it
• me, and by it

• killed
• put
• kill

• me.
• me;
• me to death.

Romans 7:12

• So, then, the law
• So then, the Law
• So then the law
• So then, the law
• So the law
• Therefore the law
• So that the law
• so that the law,

• is
• indeed is
• indeed, is

• holy, and the
• holy; and the
• holy; and
• holy, and

• commandment
• command

• is

• holy, and
• holy and
• holy,

• righteous and
• righteous, and
• right, and
• right and
• just, and
• just and
• upright, and
• upright and

• good.

Romans 7:13

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Romans 7:14

• We
• for we
• For we

• know that the

• law
• Law

• is

• spiritual: but
• spiritual; but
• spiritual, but
• spiritual. But

• I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 7:15

• I
• For I

• do not understand my own

• actions. For
• actions; for

• I

• do
• am

• not do what I want, but I do the

• things
• very thing

• I

• hate.
• hate to do.

Romans 7:16

• And if I
• But if I
• Now if I

• do what I do

• not
• n’t
• not to

• want to do,
• want,
• do,

• I

• agree that the
• agree with the
• consent to the

• law
• Law
• law, that it
• law that it

• is

• good.
• good,
• right.

Romans 7:17

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Romans 7:18

• For I
• I

• know that
• know there is

• nothing good

• lives in
• dwells in

• me, that
• me—that

• is, in my

• flesh; for
• flesh. For
• sinful nature.

• I

• want to
• have the desire to

• do
• do what
• do the

• good, but
• right,
• is good, but
• is right, but

• I

• can
• do
• ca

• not
• n’t

• do
• carry

• it.
• it out.

Romans 7:19

• For I
• I

• do

• not
• n’t

• do the

• good
• good that
• good which
• good thing
• good things

• I want to

• do, but
• do. Instead,
• do; instead,
• do.

• I do the

• evil that
• evil
• evil which

• I do

• not
• n’t

• want to
• want is what

• do.
• I do.

Romans 7:20

• Now if I do what I do

• not
• n’t

• want,
• want to do,

• it
• I

• is
• am

• no

• longer “
• longer
• longer the

• I who
• I that

• do

• it but
• it, but

• sin that
• sin which

• lives in
• dwells in

• me.

Romans 7:21

• So I have learned this

• rule: When
• rule, when

• I want to

• do
• do what

• good,
• is good,
• right,

• evil

• is right there with
• is there with
• is

• me.
• present.

Romans 7:22

• In my

• mind
• mind,

• I am happy with God’s

• law;
• law.
• law,

Romans 7:23

• But I
• but I

• see a different

• law” in
• law in
• law at work in

• my

• members
• members;
• members,

• waging war against the
• warring against the

• law of
• law in
• law that

• my

• mind and
• mind, and
• mind,

• making
• makes
• taking
• bringing

• me a
• me
• me into

• captive to the
• prisoner to the
• prisoner of the

• law of

• sin which
• sin that
• sin, and that

• is in
• law makes
• is

• my
• me its

• body.
• members.
• prisoner.

Romans 7:24

• Wretched
• What a miserable
• What a wretched
• Miserable

• man that
• man
• person

• I

• am. Who
• am! Who

• will

• rescue
• deliver
• save
• set

• me from this
• me from the

• body of
• body of this

• death?

Romans 7:25

• Thanks be to

• God through
• God—through

• Jesus

• Christ,
• Christ

• our Lord! So then, I myself serve the

• law of
• Law of

• God with my mind, but with my flesh I

• serve the
• am a

• law of
• slave to the law of

• sin.