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But now we are freed from the law, being dead to that which had hold upon us; and we should henceforth serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Formerly I lived without the law: but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

Has then that which is good, become death to me? Far be it. But sin that is exposed as sin and works death in me for that which is good, will be the more condemned by means of the law.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am of the flesh enslaved to sin.

For I do not know what I do: and I do not do the thing which I want, but I do the thing which I hate. That is exactly what I do.

Now then it is not I who do it, but sin which dominates me.

Yet I know that it does not fully dominate me, (that is in my flesh) but as far as good is concerned, the choice is easy for me to make, but to do it, that is difficult.

For it is not the good that I wish to do, that I do: but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do.

Now if I do that which I do not wish, then it is not I who do it, but the sin which dominates me.

I find therefore, that the law agrees with my conscience when I wish to do good, but evil is always near, distracting me.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

I thank God through our LORD Jesus Christ. Now therefore with my mind I am a servant of the law of God; but with my flesh I am a servant of the law of sin.

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, for we do not walk after the things of the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For they who are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit.

To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace;

But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit if the Spirit of God truly dwells within you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

And if Christ is within you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you shall live.

For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to be in fear again; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Avon, Father, our Father.

For man was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who gave him free will in the hope he would choose rightly.