Or do you not know, my brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over a man as long as he is alive?

Just as a woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of her husband.

But if, while her husband is alive, she joins herself to another man, she becomes an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law, and is not an adulteress if she becomes another man’s.

And now, my brothers, you also have died to the law by the body of the Mashiyach, that you might be joined to another, even to him who rose from among the dead, that you might give fruit to Elohim.

For while we were in the flesh, the pains of sin that are by the law were at work in our members, that we might give fruit to death.

But now we are released from the law and have died to that which held us, so that we might serve from now on in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the writing.

What then do we say? Is the law sin? Far from it. But I did not learn sin except by means of the law. For I would not have known desire if the law had not said, Do not desire.

And by this commandment sin found occasion and perfected in me every desire. For without the law sin was dead.

And I was alive without the law formerly; but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died;

and the commandment of life was found by me to be to death.

For sin, by the occasion it found by means of the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

So did what is good become death to me? Far from it. But sin, so that it would be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of the good law; so that sin would be condemned all the more by means of the commandment.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, and sold to sin.

For what I am doing I do not know; and it is not what I want that I do, but what I hate, that I do.

And if I do what I do not want, I testify of the law that it is right.

But now it is no longer I who do this, but sin that dwells in me.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for to want the good is easy for me, but to do it I am not able.

For I do not do the good that I want to do, but the bad that I do not want to do, that I do.

And if I do what I do not want, it is not I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

I find therefore a law that agrees with my mind, which wants to do the good, because evil is near to me.

For I rejoice in the law of Elohim in the inner man.

But I see another law in my members that wars against the law of my mind and makes me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

I thank Elohim by means of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach I shall be rescued. Now therefore I in my mind am a servant of the law of Elohim, but in my flesh I am a servant of the law of sin.