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For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.

For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: