Study Desk

ether geue ye ouer youre membres vnto synne to be wapens of vnrighteousnes, but geue ouer youre selues vnto God, as they that off deed are become lyuynge, and youre membres vnto God to be wapes off righteousnes.

For synne shal not haue power ouer you, in so moch as ye are not vnder the lawe, but vnder grace.

How then? Shal we synne, because we are not vnder ye lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd.

But God be thanked, that though ye haue bene the seruauntes of synne, ye are now yet obedient of herte to the ensample off the doctryne, whervnto ye are commytted.

But now that ye be fre from synne, and are become the seruauntes of God, ye haue youre frute that ye shulde be holy: but the ende is euerlastinge life.

For death is the rewarde of synne, but the gifte of God is euerlastinge life.

For the woman yt is in subieccion to the man, is bounde vnto the lawe whyle the man lyueth: but yf the man dye, then is she lowsed from the lawe that concerneth the man.

Yf she be now with another man, whyle the man lyueth, she shal be called a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed, then is she fre from the lawe, so that she is no wedlocke breaker, yf she be with another man.

But now are we lowsed from the lawe, and deed vnto it, that helde vs captyue, so that we shulde serue in a new conuersacion of the sprete, and not in the olde conuersacion of the letter.

What shal we saye then? Is the lawe synne? God forbyd: Neuertheles I knewe not synne, but by ye lawe. For I had knowne nothinge of lust, yf the lawe had not sayde: Thou shalt not lust.

But then toke synne occasion at the commaundement, and stered vp in me all maner of lust. For without the lawe synne was deed.

As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed.

Is that then which is good, become death vnto me? God forbyd. But synne, that it mighte appeare how yt it is synne, hath wroughte me death thorow good: that synne mighte be out of measure synfull by the commaundement.

For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder synne:

because I knowe not what I do. For I do not yt I will, but what I hate, yt do I.

So then it is not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me:

for I knowe that in me (yt is, in my flesh) there dwelleth no good thinge.To wyll is present wt me, but to perfourme yt which is good,

I fynde not. For ye good that I wyll, do I not: but the euell which I wil not, that do I.

Yf I do now that I wil not, then is it not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me.

but I se another lawe in my membres, which stryueth agaynst ye lawe of my mynde, and taketh me presoner in ye lawe of synne, which is in my membres.