Coverdale(i)
7 What shal we saye then? Is the lawe synne? God forbyd: Neuertheles I knewe not synne, but by ye lawe. For I had knowne nothinge of lust, yf the lawe had not sayde: Thou shalt not lust.
8 But then toke synne occasion at the commaundement, and stered vp in me all maner of lust. For without the lawe synne was deed.
9 As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed.
10 And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death.
11 For synne toke occasion at the comaundement, and disceaued me, and slewe me by the same commaundement.
12 The lawe in dede is holy, and the commaundement holy, iust and good.
13 Is that then which is good, become death vnto me? God forbyd. But synne, that it mighte appeare how yt it is synne, hath wroughte me death thorow good: that synne mighte be out of measure synfull by the commaundement.
14 For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder synne:
15 because I knowe not what I do. For I do not yt I will, but what I hate, yt do I.
16 Yf I do now that which I wil not, the graunte I, that the lawe is good.
17 So then it is not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me:
18 for I knowe that in me (yt is, in my flesh) there dwelleth no good thinge.To wyll is present wt me, but to perfourme yt which is good,
19 I fynde not. For ye good that I wyll, do I not: but the euell which I wil not, that do I.
20 Yf I do now that I wil not, then is it not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me.
21 Thus fynde I now by the lawe, yt whan I wyl do good, euell is present with me.
22 For I delite in the lawe of God after the inwarde man:
23 but I se another lawe in my membres, which stryueth agaynst ye lawe of my mynde, and taketh me presoner in ye lawe of synne, which is in my membres.
24 O wretched man that I am, who shal delyuer me from the body of this death?
25 I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure LORDE. So then wt the mynde I serue ye lawe of God, but with the flesh the lawe of synne.