7:1 Know ye not, achim (brethren), (for I speak to them that know the Torah,) how that the Torah hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
7:2 For a woman who is bound by the Torah to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is freed by the Torah from her husband.
7:3 So then if, while [her] 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 Torah; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
7:4 Wherefore, my achim (brethren), ye also are become dead to the Torah by the body of Moshiach; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto Elohim (אלהים).
7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the Torah, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
7:6 But now we are delivered from the Torah, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
7:7 What shall we say then? [Is] the Torah sin? Chalilah (Far be it). Nay, I had not known sin, but by the Torah: for I had not known lust, except the Torah had said, Thou shalt not covet.
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind for apart from theTorah sin [was] dead.
7:9 For I was alive without the Torah once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
7:12 Wherefore the Torah [is] kadosh, and the commandment kadosh, and tzedek, and tov.
7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? Let it never be. 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.
7:14 For we know that the Torah is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the Torah that [it is] good.
7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.
7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
7:21 I find then a Torah, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
7:22 For I delight in the Torah of Elohim (אלהים) after the inward man:
7:23 But I see another Torah in my members, warring against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the Torah of sin which is in my members.
7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
7:25 I thank Elohim (אלהים) through Yeshua (ישוע) ha Moshiach Adoneinu. So then with the mind I myself serve the Torah of Elohim (אלהים); but with the flesh the Torah of sin.