1 Are you ignorant, brethren (I speak to those who know the law,) that the law lords over the man for as long a time as he should live?2 For a woman married to a living husband is bound by law; but if the husband should die, she is discharged from the law of the husband:3 so then as the husband is living, she would be labeled an adulteress if she were found with another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, she is not an adulteress being found with another man.4 Consequently, my brethren, you also are put to death in the law through the body of Christ; for you to be found with another, who from the dead was raised in order that we should bear fruit for Yahweh.5 Indeed when we were in the flesh, the occurrences of fault, which were through the law, operated in our members for the bearing of fruit for death;6 but now we are discharged from the law, being put to death in that which we were held, so that we are bound in newness of Spirit, and not oldness of letter.7 Now what may we say? Is the law an error? Certainly not! But I had not perceived fault, unless by the law; then also I had not acknowledged covetousness, unless the law said, "thou shalt not covet;"8 but the error having taken a starting point by the commandment has accomplished in me all covetousness; for apart from the law guilt is dead.9 Now I was alive apart from the law once; but the commandment having come, the guilt was revived, and I died.10 And it was found to me that the commandment, which is for life, it is for death:11 for error having taken a starting point by the commandment, had seduced and killed me through it.12 So indeed the law is sacred, and the commandment sacred, and just, and good.13 Then that which is good, to me has it become death? Certainly not! But error, that it may bring fault to light, through the good in me accomplishes death; so that the fault becomes excessively wicked by the commandment.14 Indeed we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, being ruined by guilt.15 For that which I perpetrate, I do not recognize; I do not practice that which I wish, rather I do that which I hate.16 But if I do that which I do not wish, I concede to the law that it is virtuous.17 Now then, no longer is it I perpetrating it, but the fault dwelling within me.18 Therefore I know that good does not dwell in me, that is to say, in my flesh: indeed to be willing is present with me, but for me to achieve virtue, no.19 I do not wish that I practice good; but that I do not wish evil, this I practice.20 But if that which I do not wish, this I do, no longer is it I perpetrating it, but the fault dwelling in me.21 I find then the law which wishes me to practice virtue, because evil is present with me.22 Indeed I rejoice in the law of Yahweh in accordance with the inward man:23 but I see another law in my members battling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the law of error which is in my members.24 I am a miserable man! Who will deliver me from this body of death?25 I am thankful to Yahweh through Yahshua Christ our Prince. So then I myself with the mind indeed serve the law of Yahweh, but in the flesh the law of error.