MODERN LITERAL VERSION

7:1 Or are you* ignorant, brethren (for* I am speaking to men who know the law), that the law has lordship over a man inasmuch time as he is living?
7:2 For* the woman in wedlock is bound by law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is {F} discharged from the law of the husband.
7:3 Then* consequently, if while the husband is living, she becomes joined to another man, she will be divinely-called– an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, she is not an adulteress, even if she had become joined to another man.
7:4 So-then my brethren, you* were also put to death to the law through the body of Christ; *that* you* should become joined to another, that is to him who was raised up from the dead, that* we might bear-fruit to God.
7:5 For* when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, were working in our members, *that* they might bear-fruit to death.
7:6 But now we have been {F} discharged from the law, having died in that in which we were held; so-that we serve* in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the writing.

7:7 Then* what shall we say? Is the law sin? Let it not happen! But, I had not known sin, except through the law; for* I had not known {F} coveting, except the law had said, Do not {F} covet.
7:8 But sin, having taken a starting-point, worked in me through the commandment all manner of {F} coveting; for* separate from the law sin is dead.
7:9 But I was previously alive separate from the law, but when the commandment came, sin lived again through me and I died;
7:10 and the commandment, which was to life, I found this to be to death;
7:11 for* sin, having taken a starting-point through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
7:12 So-that the law indeed is holy and the commandment holy and righteous and good.
7:13 Then* what is good to me, has it become death? Let it not happen! But sin, in order that it might appear as sin, through what is good to me, was working death; in order that sin might become surpassingly sinful through the commandment.
7:14 For* we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold* under sin.

7:15 For* I do not know what I am working; for* not what I will– I am practicing this, but what I hate– I am practicing this.
7:16 But if what I do not will, this I am practicing, I assent with the law; that it is good.
7:17 So now no longer am I working it, but the sin which is dwelling in me.
7:18 For* I know nothing good is dwelling in me, that is in my flesh; for* it is lying beside with me to will it, but to work what is good, I am not finding it.
7:19 For* the good which I will, I am not practicing, but the evil which I do not will– I am doing this.
7:20 But if what I do not will, this I am practicing, no longer am I working it, but the sin which is dwelling in me.
7:21 Consequently, I find the law to me, that when I am willing to practice the good things, evil is lying beside me.

7:22 For* I delight-inwardly in the law of God according to the inward man.
7:23 But I am seeing a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and capturing me in the law of sin which is in my members.
7:24 O I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
7:25 I am giving-thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then* consequently, I myself, indeed, serve* the law of God with the mind, but with the flesh I serve * the law of sin.
{Footnotes: Rom 7:2, 6- GREEK: done-away. Rom 7:7, 8- GREEK: lust or desire for. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for.}