Romans 7 (NET)

Romans 7:1¹Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:14Rom 7:6Rom 6:3Prov 6:23Rom 10:1Gal 4:21Rom 9:31 Cor 9:8Rom 2:17-18Rom 1:13

Romans 7:2²For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 2:23-241 Cor 7:41 Cor 7:39Num 30:7-8

Romans 7:3³So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:14Matt 5:32Mark 10:6-121 Tim 5:11-14Deut 22:22-24John 8:3-5Lev 20:10Num 5:13-31Ruth 2:13

Romans 7:4⁴So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:24Gal 5:22-23Isa 54:5Rom 8:2Eph 5:23-27Rom 7:6Gal 2:19-20Eph 2:15Gal 5:18Col 1:22

Romans 7:5⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:3Gal 5:16-17Gal 5:24Gal 3:10Rom 6:13Rom 6:211 Cor 15:561 John 3:4Col 3:5Rom 7:7-13

Romans 7:6⁶But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:23-252 Cor 3:6Rom 7:4Rom 6:4Gal 2:19-20Gal 4:4-5Rom 6:14-15Gal 3:132 Cor 5:17Gal 6:15

Romans 7:7⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:20Rom 4:151 Cor 15:56Exod 20:17Deut 5:21Rom 13:9Rom 7:8Ps 19:7-121 John 2:15-161 Thess 4:5

Romans 7:8⁸But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 7:111 Cor 15:56Rom 4:15Jas 1:14-15Rom 7:13John 15:22Rom 5:20John 15:24Rom 7:17

Romans 7:9⁹And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became aliveCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:10Rom 8:7Jas 2:10-11Rom 7:4Gal 2:19Rom 10:5Rom 7:11Rom 7:21-23Rom 7:6Luke 18:9-12

Romans 7:10¹⁰and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:7Lev 18:5Rom 10:5Gal 3:12Ezek 20:11Ezek 20:21Luke 10:27-29Ezek 20:13

Romans 7:11¹¹For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:13Rom 7:8Heb 3:13Isa 44:20Jas 1:22Jas 1:26Jer 17:9Jer 49:16Rom 7:13

Romans 7:12¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 1:8Ps 119:137Ps 19:7-12Rom 7:14Ps 119:172Neh 9:13Rom 3:31Deut 4:8Ps 119:127Ps 119:140

Romans 7:13¹³Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:13-15Gal 3:21Rom 7:8-11Rom 8:3Rom 5:20

Romans 7:14¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual—but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:252 Kgs 17:171 Kgs 21:20Isa 52:3Rom 7:18Eph 3:8Isa 50:1Matt 5:22Prov 30:5Ps 119:25

Romans 7:15¹⁵For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:17Rom 7:19-20Eccl 7:20Jas 3:2Nah 1:7Phil 3:12-141 John 1:7-8Rom 12:9Jude 1:23Ps 19:12

Romans 7:16¹⁶But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 7:121 Tim 1:8Rom 7:14Ps 119:127-128Rom 7:22

Romans 7:17¹⁷But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 7:20Phil 3:8-9Rom 7:18Jas 4:5-62 Cor 8:12Rom 4:7-8Rom 7:23

Romans 7:18¹⁸For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:6Ps 51:5Gal 5:17Ps 119:115-117Rom 7:25Job 14:4Gal 5:24Job 15:14-16Gen 6:5Phil 2:13

Romans 7:19¹⁹For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 7:15

Romans 7:20²⁰Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 7:17

Romans 7:21²¹So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:11-13Rom 6:14Rom 7:23Rom 8:2Heb 2:17Ps 119:133Rom 6:122 Pet 2:19Heb 4:15John 8:34

Romans 7:22²²For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 1:2Ps 40:8Ps 119:35Ps 119:47-48Heb 8:10Job 23:12Ps 119:97-1042 Cor 4:16Ps 119:92Ps 119:16

Romans 7:23²³But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:17Jas 4:1Rom 8:2Rom 6:191 Pet 2:11Rom 7:25Heb 12:41 Tim 6:11-122 Tim 2:25-26Eccl 7:20

Romans 7:24²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:62 Tim 4:18Titus 2:14Rom 8:22 Cor 12:7-9Rom 8:26Ps 102:20Heb 2:15Rev 21:4Rom 8:13

Romans 7:25²⁵Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:17-24Col 3:172 Cor 12:9-101 Pet 2:5Isa 49:13Ps 107:15-161 Pet 2:9Rom 6:14Rom 6:17Rom 7:15-24