Bishops(i)
7 What shall we say then? Is the lawe sinne? God forbyd. Neuerthelesse, I knewe not sinne, but by the lawe: For I had not knowen lust, except the lawe had sayde, thou shalt not lust
8 But sinne, takyng occasion by the commaundement, wrought in me all maner of concupiscence. For without the lawe, sinne [was] dead
9 I once lyued without lawe: But when the commaundement came, sinne reuyued
10 And I was dead. And the very same commaundemet, which was ordeyned vnto lyfe, was founde to be vnto me an occasion of death
11 For sinne, takyng occasion by the commaundement, hath deceaued me, and by the same slewe [me.
12 Wherfore the lawe is holy, and the commaundement holy, & iust and good
13 Was that then which was good, made death vnto me? God forbyd. But sinne, that sinne myght appeare, by that which was good to worke death in me: that sinne by ye commaundement, myght be out of measure sinfull
14 For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne
15 For that which I do, I alowe not. For what I woulde, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I
16 If I do nowe that which I woulde not, I consent vnto the lawe, that it is good
17 Nowe then, it is not I that do it: but sinne that dwelleth in me
18 For I knowe, that in me, that is to say in my fleshe, dwelleth no good thyng. For to wyll, is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to perfourme that which is good
19 For the good that I woulde, do I not: But the euyll which I woulde not, that do I
20 And yf I do that I woulde not, then is it not I that doth it, but sinne that dwelleth in me
21 I fynde then by the lawe, that when I woulde do good, euyll is present with me
22 For I delite in the lawe of God, after the inwarde man
23 But I see another lawe in my members, rebellyng agaynst the lawe of my mynde, and subduyng me vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members
24 O wretched man that I am: Who shall deliuer me from the body of this death
25 I thanke God through Iesus Christe our Lorde. So then, with the mynde I my selfe serue the lawe of God: but with the fleshe, the lawe of sinne