17 But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. 16 But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right. 15 I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. 14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I’m made of flesh and blood, and I’m sold as a slave to sin. That way sin would become even more thoroughly sinful through the commandment. Living under the Lawġ3 So did something good bring death to me? Absolutely not! But sin caused my death through something good so that sin would be exposed as sin. 12 So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. 11 Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death. 9 I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, 10 and I died. 8 But sin seized the opportunity and used this commandment to produce all kinds of desires in me.

I wouldn’t have known the desire for what others have if the Law had not said, Don’t desire to take what others have.

The function of the Lawħ So what are we going to say? That the Law is sin? Absolutely not! But I wouldn’t have known sin except through the Law. We have died with respect to the thing that controlled us, so that we can be slaves in the new life under the Spirit, not in the old life under the written Law. 6 But now we have been released from the Law. 5 When we were self-centered, the sinful passions aroused through the Law were at work in all the parts of our body, so that we bore fruit for death. You are united with the one who was raised from the dead so that we can bear fruit for God. 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also died with respect to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you could be united with someone else. But if her husband dies, she’s free from the Law, so she won’t be committing adultery if she marries someone else. 3 So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she’s committing adultery. But if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband. Don’t you know that the Law has power over someone only as long as he or she lives? 2 A married woman is united with her husband under the Law while he is alive. 7 Brothers and sisters, I’m talking to you as people who know the Law.

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