1Know 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? 2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.[ † ]1 Corinthians 7:39 3So 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 law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.[ † ]Matthew 5:32 4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.[ † ]Romans 8:2Galatians 2:19Galatians 5:18Colossians 2:14Galatians 5:22 5For 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.[ † ]Romans 6:13Romans 6:21Galatians 5:19James 1:15 6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.[ † ]Romans 2:292 Corinthians 3:6
7What shall we say then? Is 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.[ † ]Romans 3:20Exodus 20:17Deuteronomy 5:21Acts 20:33 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.[ † ]Romans 4:151 Corinthians 15:56 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.[ † ]Leviticus 18:5Ezekiel 20:11-13, 21Luke 10:28Romans 10:52 Corinthians 3:7Galatians 3:12 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me . 12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.[ † ]Psalms 19:8
13Was 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. 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.[ † ]1 Kings 21:20-252 Kings 17:17Romans 6:16 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.[ † ]Romans 7:19Galatians 5:17 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18For 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.[ † ]Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:[ † ]Psalms 1:22 Corinthians 4:16Ephesians 3:161 Peter 3:4 23but 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.[ † ]Romans 6:19Galatians 5:17James 4:11 Peter 2:11Romans 6:13-19 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?[ † ]Romans 8:111 Corinthians 15:51-521 Thessalonians 4:14-17 25I 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.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:57