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Knowe ye not brethren (for I speake vnto them that knowe the lawe) how that ye lawe hath power vpon a man as longe as he lyueth?

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.

For whan we were in the flesh, the synfull lustes (which were stered vp by the lawe) were mightie in oure membres to brynge forth frute vnto death.

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.

For synne toke occasion at the comaundement, and disceaued me, and slewe me by the same 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.

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.

For I delite in the lawe of God after the inwarde man:

For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death.

For what vnpossible was vnto ye lawe (in as moch as it was weake because of the flesh) yt perfourmed God, & sent his sonne in ye similitude of synfull flesh,

For they that are fleshly, are fleshly mynded: but they that are goostly, are goostly mynded.

For to be fleshly mynded is enemyte agaynst. God, syth it is not subdued vnto ye lawe of God, for it can not also.

As for the that are fleshlye, they can not please God.

Neuertheles yf Christ be in you, then is the body deed because of synne. But the sprete is life for righteousnes sake.

to lyue after the flesh: for yf ye lyue after ye fleshe, ye must dye: but yf ye mortyfye the dedes of the body thorow the sprete, ye shal lyue.

For who so euer are led by the sprete of God,