1 No law hath power over a man longer than he lives.
4 But we are dead to the law.
7 Yet is not the law sin;
12 but holy, just and good;
16 as I acknowledge, who am grieved because I cannot keep it.

Know. See on 6:3

brethren. 9:3 10:1

them that. 2:17,18 Ezr 7:25 Pr 6:23 1Co 9:8 Ga 4:21

the law. 6 6:14

a man. Or, person, either man or woman; [anthropos] and homo having this extent of signification.

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

the woman. Rather, a woman. The apostle here illustrates the position laid down in the preceding verse by a familiar instance.

Ge 2:23,24 Nu 30:7,8 1Co 7:4,39

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

So then. Ex 20:14 Le 20:10 Nu 5:13 *etc: De 22:22-24 Mt 5:32 Mr 10:6-12 Joh 8:3-5

through. Ru 2:13 1Sa 25:39-42 1Ti 5:11-14

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

ye also. 6 6:14 8:2 Ga 2:19,20 3:13 5:18 Eph 2:15 Col 2:14,20

the body. Mt 26:26 Joh 6:51 1Co 10:16 Heb 10:10 1Pe 2:24

that ye. Ps 45:10-15 Isa 54:5 62:5 Ho 2:19,20 Joh 3:29 2Co 11:2 Eph 5:23-27 Re 19:7 21:9

that we. 6:22 Ps 45:16 Joh 15:8 Ga 5:22,23 Php 1:11 4:17 Col 1:6,10

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

in the flesh. 8:8,9 Joh 3:6 Ga 5:16,17,24 Eph 2:3,11 Tit 3:3

motions. Gr. passions. 1:26 *Gr:

which. 3:20 4:15 5:20 1Co 15:56 2Co 3:6-9 Ga 3:10 Jas 2:9,10 1Jo 3:4

did work. 8-13 Mt 15:19 Ga 5:19-21 Jas 1:15

members. 23 6:13,19 Col 3:5 Jas 4:1

bring. 6:21

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

But. 4 6:14,15 Ga 3:13,23-25 4:4,5

that being dead. or, being dead to that. 1,4 6:2

serve. 1:9 2:27-29 6:4,11,19,22 12:2 Eze 11:19 36:26 2Co 3:6 5:17 Ga 2:19,20 6:15 Php 3:3 Col 3:10

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

What. 3:5 4:1 6:15

is the law. 8,11,13 1Co 15:56

I had. 5 3:20 Ps 19:7-12 119:96

lust. or, concupiscence. 8 1Th 4:5

Thou shalt. 13:9 Ge 3:6 Ex 20:17 De 5:21 Jos 7:21 2Sa 11:2 1Ki 21:1-4 Mic 2:2 Mt 5:28 Lu 12:15 Ac 20:33 Eph 5:3 Col 3:5 1Jo 2:15,16

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

sin. 11,13,17 4:15 5:20

wrought. Jas 1:14,15

For without, etc. Rather, 'For without a law sin is dead.' Where there is no law, there is no transgression; for sin is the transgression of the law: the very essence of sin consists in the violation of some positive law.

4:15 Joh 15:22,24 1Co 15:56

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For I. Mt 19:20 Lu 10:25-29 15:29 18:9-12,21 Php 3:5,6

without. Mt 5:21 *etc: Mt 15:4-6 Mr 7:8-13

but. 3:19,20 10:5 Ps 40:12 Ga 3:10 Jas 2:10,11

sin. 21-23 8:7

and I died. 4,6 *marg: 11 3:20 Ga 2:19

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

10:5 Le 18:5 Eze 20:11,13,21 Lu 10:27-29 2Co 3:7

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

sin. 8,13

deceived. Isa 44:20 Jer 17:9 49:16 Ob 1:3 Eph 4:22 Heb 3:13 Jas 1:22,26

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

the law. 14 3:31 12:2 De 4:8 10:12 Ne 9:13 Ps 19:7-12 119:38,86,127,137 Ps 119:140,172 1Ti 1:8

the commandment. 7

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

then. 8:3 Ga 3:21

But sin. 8-11 5:20 Jas 1:13-15

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

the law. Le 19:18 De 6:5 Ps 51:6 Mt 5:22,28 22:37-40 Heb 4:12

but. 18,22,23 Job 42:6 Ps 119:25 Pr 30:2,5 Isa 6:5 64:5,6 Lu 5:8 Lu 7:6 18:11-14 Eph 3:8

carnal. Mt 16:23 1Co 3:1-3

sold. 24 Ge 37:27,36 40:15 Ex 21:2-6 22:3 1Ki 21:20,25 2Ki 17:17 Isa 50:1 52:3 Am 2:6 Mt 18:25

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

For that. 14:22 Lu 11:48

allow. or, know. Ps 1:6 Na 1:7 2Ti 2:19

what. 16,19,20 1Ki 8:46 Ps 19:12 65:3 119:1-6,32,40 Ec 7:20 Ga 5:17 Php 3:12-14 Jas 3:2 1Jo 1:7,8

what I hate. 12:9 Ps 36:4 97:10 101:3 119:104,113,128,163 Pr 8:13 13:5 Am 5:15 Heb 1:9 Jude 1:23

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

I consent. 12,14,22 Ps 119:127,128

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

it is no more. 20 4:7,8 2Co 8:12 Php 3:8,9

sin. 18,20,23 Jas 4:5,6

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

that in me. Ge 6:5 8:21 Job 14:4 15:14-16 25:4 Ps 51:5 Isa 64:6 Mt 15:19 Mr 7:21-23 Lu 11:13 Eph 2:1-5 Tit 3:3 1Pe 4:2

in my. 5,25 8:3-13 13:14 Joh 3:6 Ga 5:19-21,24

for to will. 15,19,25 Ps 119:5,32,40,115-117,173,176 Ga 5:17 Php 2:13 3:12

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

it is no. 17

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

a law. 23 6:12,14 8:2 Ps 19:13 119:133 Joh 8:34 Eph 6:11-13 2Pe 2:19

evil. 2Ch 30:18,19 Ps 19:12 40:12 65:3 119:37 Isa 6:5-7 Zec 3:1-4 Lu 4:1 Heb 2:17 4:15

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

I delight. 8:7 Job 23:12 Ps 1:2 19:8-10 40:8 119:16,24,35,47,48,72,92 Ps 119:97-104,111,113,127,167,174 Isa 51:7 Joh 4:34 Heb 8:10

inward. 2:29 2Co 4:16 Eph 3:16 Col 3:9 1Pe 3:4

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

another. 5,21,25 8:2 Ec 7:20 Ga 5:17 1Ti 6:11,12 Heb 12:4 Jas 3:2 4:1 1Pe 2:11

member. 6:13,19

and. 14 Ps 142:7 2Ti 2:25,26

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

wretched. 8:26 1Ki 8:38 Ps 6:6 32:3,4 38:2,8-10 77:3-9 119:20,81-83,131 Ps 119:143,176 130:1-3 Eze 9:4 Mt 5:4,6 2Co 12:7-9 Re 21:4

who. De 22:26,27 Ps 71:11 72:12 91:14,15 102:20 Mic 7:19 Zec 9:11,12 Lu 4:18 2Co 1:8-10 2Ti 4:18 Tit 2:14 Heb 2:15

the body of this. or, this body of. 6:6 8:13 Ps 88:5 Col 2:11

25 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.

thank God. 6:14,17 Ps 107:15,16 116:16,17 Isa 12:1 49:9,13 Mt 1:21 1Co 15:57 2Co 9:15 12:9,10 Eph 5:20 Php 3:3 4:6 Col 3:17 1Pe 2:5,9

So then. 15-24 Ga 5:17-24