1Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the Torah), that the Torah has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the Torah to the husband while he lives; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband. 3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband dies, she is free from the Torah, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the Torah through the body of Messiah; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the Torah, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. 6But now we have been discharged from the Torah, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. 7What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? God forbid. However, I would not have known sin, except through the Torah: for I would not have known coveting, unless the Torah had said, You shall not covet: 8but sin, finding occasion, worked in me through the commandment all kinds of coveting: for apart from the Torah sin is dead. 9And I was alive apart from the Torah once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; 10and the commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death: 11for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. 12So that the Torah is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13Did then that which is good become death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. 14For we know that the Torah is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I do not know: for not what I want, that I practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16But if what I do not want, that I do, I consent to the Torah that it is good. 17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin which dwells in me. 18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. 19For the good which I want I do not do: but the evil which I do not want, that I practice. 20But if what I do not want, that I do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21I find then this principle, that, to me who wants to do good, evil is present. 22For I delight in the Torah of God according to the inward man: 23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? 25I thank God through Yeshua Messiah our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the Torah of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.