KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Torah,) how that the Torah has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
For the woman which has a man is bound by that mitsvah to her man so long as he lives; but if the man be dead, she is loosed from that mitsvah of her man.
So then if, while her man lives, she be married to another man, she shall be an adulteress: but if her man be dead, she is free from that mitsvah; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to that mitsvah by the body of Mashiach; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto Elohiym.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by that mitsvah, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
But now we are delivered from that mitsvah, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of the ruach, and not in the oldness of the letter.
What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? Never. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the Torah: for I had not known lust, except the Torah had said, You shall not lust.
But sin, taking occasion by the mitsvah, wrought in me all manner of lusting. For without the Torah sin was dead.
For I was alive without the Torah once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
And the mitsvah, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
For sin, taking occasion by the mitsvah, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Wherefore the Torah is holy, and the mitsvah holy, and just, and good.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the mitsvah might become exceeding sinful.
For we know that the Torah is of the Ruach: but I am carnal, trafficked by sin.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; את but what I hate, that do I.
If then את I do that which I would not, I consent unto the Torah that it is good.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a rule, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the Torah of Elohiym after the inward man:
But I see another Law in my members, warring against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the Law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank Elohiym through Yahusha Ha'Mashiach our Adonai. So then with the mind I myself serve the Torah of Elohiym; but with the flesh the Law of sin.