Romans 7:1-9:33 BUT know you not, my brethren, for to those who know the law I speak, that the law has authority over a man as long as he liveth?

Etheridge⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ BUT know you not, my brethren, for to those who know the law I speak, that the law has authority over a man as long as he liveth? ² as a woman who is bound in law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband. ³ But if, while her husband lives, she adhere to another man, she becometh an adulteress; but if her husband shall die, she is freed from the law, and is not an adulteress, though she become (the wife) of another man. ⁴ And now, my brethren, you also are dead to the law, through the body of the Meshiha, that you should be married to another, (namely, to) him who rose from the dead, that you may render fruit unto Aloha. ⁵ For while we were in the flesh, the affections of sin, which are against [Compare the same particle, 2Co 7:2.] the law, wrought powerfully in our members to yield fruits unto death; ⁶ but now we are loosed from the law, and are dead to that which held us, that we might serve henceforth in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the writing. ⁷ What then, say we the law is sin? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath said, Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ And by this commandment sin found for itself an occasion, and completed in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. ⁹ But I was alive without the law formerly: but when the commandment came, sin lived, and I died. ¹⁰ And that commandment of life was found to me (to tend) unto death. ¹¹ For sin, by the occasion it found through the commandment, deceived me, and thereby killed me. ¹² The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ The good, then, unto me, unto death was made? Not so. But sin, that it might be seen what sin is, by the good (law) effected death in me, that sin might be the more condemned by the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual; [Da-ruch, "Of the spirit."] but I am carnal, and sold unto sin. ¹⁵ For what I work, I know [Or, acknowledge, approve.] not; and not that which I will, I do; but what I hate, that I do. ¹⁶ And if the thing that I would not, I do, I witness of the law that it is good. [Shaphir.] ¹⁷ But now it is not I who work this, but sin which dwelleth in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me, but that is in my flesh, good dwelleth not; because to will the good is easy to me, but to perform it I find not. ¹⁹ For the good that I will to do, I do not; but the evil that I will not to do, that do I. ²⁰ And if the thing that I will not I do, it is not I who do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. ²¹ I find then a law which accordeth with my mind, that willeth to do good, because evil is near to me. ²² For I rejoice in the law of Aloha in the interior man; ²³ but I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. ²⁴ Miserable son of man am I! who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ I give thanks to Aloha! (it is) by the hand of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. Now then, I in my mind am the servant of the law of Aloha, but in my flesh* I am the servant of the law of sin. [* Compare verse 13 with Joh 3:6, 7.] ⁸ ¹ Hence, there is no condemnation to them who do not walk according to the flesh, in Jeshu Meshiha. ² For the law of the Spirit of life, which is in Jeshu Meshiha, hath set thee free from the law of sin and of death. ³ Because the law was weak through the infirmity of the flesh, Aloha sent his Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, on account of sin to condemn sin in his flesh; ⁴ that the righteousness of the law might in us be fulfilled, who walk not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. ⁵ For they who are in the flesh, of that flesh are mindful; and they who are of the Spirit, of that Spirit are mindful. ⁶ For the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit life and peace. ⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Aloha; for to the law of Aloha it is not subject, for it cannot be; ⁸ and they who are in the flesh cannot please Aloha. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if truly the Spirit of Aloha dwelleth in you. But if a man have not the Spirit of the Meshiha, this (man) is not his. ¹⁰ And if the Meshiha be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead dwell in you, he who raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead will also make alive your dead bodies, on account of his Spirit who dwelleth in you. ¹² Now, my brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, that according to the flesh we should walk. ¹³ For if after the flesh you live, you must die: but if, after the Spirit, the habitudes of the body you mortify, you live. ¹⁴ For they who by the Spirit of Aloha are led, they are the sons of Aloha. ¹⁵ For we have not received the spirit of servitude again unto fear, but we have received the Spirit of the adoption* of sons, by whom we cry, Father, our Father! [* Rucho da-simath benayo: The Spirit of the constituting of sons.] ¹⁶ And the Spirit himself witnesseth with our spirit, that we are the sons of Aloha. ¹⁷ And if sons, heirs also; heirs of Aloha, and the sons of the inheritance of Jeshu Meshiha. For if we suffer with him, with him also shall we be glorified. ¹⁸ For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not equal to that glory which is to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the whole creation hopeth and waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of Aloha. ²⁰ For the creation hath been subjected to vanity, not willingly, [Or, not with her will.] but on account of him who subjected her, ²¹ upon the hope that the creation herself also shall be made free from the servitude of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of Aloha. ²² For we know that all creatures groan and travail until this day; ²³ and not only they, but we also who have in us the first-fruit of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, and wait for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in hope we live: but hope that is seen is not hope; for if we see it, why hope we for it? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which is not seen, in patience we wait. ²⁶ So also the Spirit helpeth our infirmity: for what to pray for as we ought we know not; but the Spirit himself prayeth on our behalf in groanings unspoken. ²⁷ But he who searcheth the hearts, he knoweth the mind of the Spirit, who, according to the will of Aloha, prayeth for the saints. ²⁸ BUT we know that those who love Aloha, in every thing he helpeth them for good; them whom he set before that they might be called. ²⁹ And from the first he knew them, and signified* them in the likeness of the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born of many brethren. [* Var'sham enum, Signed, designated, notified them.] ³⁰ But whom he before signified, them he called; and whom he called, them he justified; and whom he justified, them he glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say of these? If Aloha be for us, who is against us? ³² And if his Son be spared not, but for all of us delivered him up, how will he not with him give us all things? ³³ Who is against the chosen of Aloha? Aloha justifieth. ³⁴ Who condemneth? The Meshiha hath died and arisen, and is at the right hand of Aloha, and prayeth for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Meshiha? Affliction, or sorrow, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For thee all the day long are we killed, we are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ But in these we all are victorious by the hand of him who hath loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor authorities, nor powers, nor things subsisting, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of Aloha which is in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. ⁹ ¹ I say the truth in Meshiha, and lie not; my conscience witnesseth for me in the Spirit of Holiness, ² that I have great grief, and (that) the sorrow of my heart ceaseth not. ³ For I could pray that I myself might be one accursed from Meshiha [Cherem from Meshiha.] instead of my brethren and my kinsmen who are in the flesh; ⁴ who are the sons of Israel, and whose was the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the ministry, and the promises, and the fathers; ⁵ and from whom appeared the Meshiha in the flesh, who is Aloha over all: his be praises and benedictions to the age of ages. Amen. ⁶ FOR the word of Aloha hath not really fallen:[Fallen to fall.] for not all who are of Israel are Israel; ⁷ neither also are they who are of the seed of Abraham all children; because it was said, In Ishok shall be called unto thee the seed: ⁸ but that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of Aloha, but the children of the promise are reckoned the seed. ⁹ For the promise is this word, In this time I will come, and a son shall be unto Sara. ¹⁰ And not this only, but also Raphka when with one, our father Ishok, she had association, ¹¹ before her sons were born, and had not wrought good or evil, the (choice) of Aloha was (made) known before that it should remain: not by works, but by him who called: ¹² for it was said, The elder shall be servant to the less; ¹³ as it is written, Jakub have I loved, and Isu have I hated. ¹⁴ What then say we? Is there iniquity with Aloha? Not so: ¹⁵ behold, also, he said unto Musha, I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. ¹⁶ Therefore it is not by him who willeth, nor by him who runneth, but by Aloha the Merciful. ¹⁷ For it is said in the scripture to Pherun, For this I have raised thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁸ Then upon whom he willeth he is merciful, and whom he willeth he hardeneth. ¹⁹ Perhaps thou wilt say, Of what then doth he complain; for who shall arise against his will? ²⁰ Who then art thou, O man, who givest answer against Aloha? Will the mass say to him who formeth it, Why thus hast thou formed me? ²¹ Or, hath not the potter power over his clay, that from the (same) mass he might make vessels, the one to honour, and the other to vileness? ²² BUT if Aloha, willing to reveal his wrath, and to make known his power, in his much patience bore with the vessels of wrath who were perfected for destruction, ²³ and poured his mercy upon the vessels of mercy who were prepared of Aloha for glory, ²⁴ who are we, (ourselves) the called, not only of the Jihudoyee, but also of the Gentiles: ²⁵ so also in Husha he said, I will call them my people who were not my people, and on those on whom I was not merciful, will I be merciful: ²⁶ for it shall be in the place where they were not called my people, there shall they be called the children of Aloha the Living. ²⁷ But Eshaia proclaims of the sons of Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand which is on the sea, the residue of them shall be saved. ²⁸ The Lord hath decreed and determined the word, and will perform it upon the earth. ²⁹ And as that which Eshaia had said before: Unless the Lord of sebaoth had left to us a residue, as Sedum should we have been, and to Amura have been likened. ³⁰ WHAT then shall we say? That the Gentiles who have not followed [Or, ran.] after righteousness have attained righteousness, but that righteousness which is of faith: ³¹ but Israel, who followed [Or, ran.] after the law of righteousness, unto the law of righteousness have not attained. ³² For why? Because it was not by faith, but by the works of the law: for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling; ³³ as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of ffence; and whosoever in him shall believe shall not be ashamed.