23 For the wages of sin is death, but in newness of the spirit, and not in the free gift of God is eternal life in oldness of the letter. Christ Jesus our Lord. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I CHAPTER SIX would not have known sin, except 1 Or do you not know, brothers, for I through the law. For I would not have speak to men who know the law, that known coveting, unless the law had the law has dominion over a man for said, You shall not covet. as long as he lives? 8 But sin, finding occasion through 2 For the woman that has a husband is the commandment, produced in me all bound by law to the husband while he kinds of coveting. For apart from the lives, but if the husband dies, she is law, sin is dead. discharged from the law of the husband. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin 3 So then if, while the husband lives, revived, and I died. she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if 10 The commandment, which was for the husband dies, she is free from the life, this I found to be for death; law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also through it killed me. were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, joined to another, to him who was and the commandment holy, and raised from the dead, that we might righteous, and good. bring forth fruit to God. 13 Did then that which is good 5 For when we were in the flesh, the become death to me? May it never be! sinful passions which were through But sin, that it might be shown to be the law, worked in our members to sin, by working death to me through bring forth fruit to death. that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become 6 But now we have been discharged exceeding sinful. from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. CHAPTER SIX 1 Or do you not know, brothers, for I speak to men who know the law, that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, 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. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, You shall not covet. 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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 exceeding sinful.