Romans 7:13-8:14

New King James Version

Law Cannot Save from Sin

¹³ Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, ^(A)sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I am doing, I do not understand. ^(B)For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. ¹⁶ If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that ^(C)in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. ¹⁹ For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. ²⁰ Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

²¹ I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. ²² For I ^(D)delight in the law of God according to ^(E)the inward man. ²³ But ^(F)I see another law in ^(G)my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me ^(H)from this body of death? ^25 (I)I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Free from Indwelling Sin

8 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, ^(J)who^[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For ^(K)the law of ^(L)the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from ^(M)the law of sin and death. ³ For ^(N)what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, ^(O)God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^(P)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For ^(Q)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, ^(R)the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For ^(S)to be ^[b]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because ^(T)the ^[c]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, ^(U)nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of ^(V)Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, ^(W)He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies ^[d]through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Sonship Through the Spirit

^12 (X)Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For ^(Y)if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you ^(Z)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For ^(AA)as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.