KNOW ye not, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for so long a time as he lives? (2)For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of the husband. (3)So then if, while the husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man. (4)Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. (5)For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. (6)But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. (7)What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. (8)But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without law, sin is dead. (9)And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. (10)And the commandment, which was for life, that I found to be for death. (11)For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (12)So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (13)Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. (14)For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15)For what I perform, I know not; for not what I desire, that do I; but what I hate, that I do. (16)But if what I desire not, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. (17)Now then, it is no longer I that perform it, but the sin that dwells in me. (18)For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to desire is present with me; but to perform that which is good I find not. (19)For the good that I desire, I do not; but the evil that I desire not, that I do. (20)But if what I desire not, that I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that dwells in me.