{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T05:01:50.348Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":7,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to <i>her</i> husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of <i>her</i> husband."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So then if, while <i>her</i> husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, <i>even</i> to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not <i>in</i> the oldness of the letter."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What shall we say then? <i>Is</i> the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin <i>was</i> dead."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And the commandment, which <i>was ordained</i> to life, I found <i>to be</i> unto death."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew <i>me</i>."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Wherefore the law <i>is</i> holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that <i>it is</i> good."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but <i>how</i> to perform that which is good I find not."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 7 (KJV)","markdown":"[Romans 7](https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/7 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}