--- title: "Romans 7:1-16 KJV - \"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? Fo\" — Read Romans 7:1-16 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/romans/7/1-16" --- [ Read](/kjv/romans/7)[ Commentary](/study/romans/7)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/romans/7) Audio ## Romans 7:1-16 in Context (Verses 1–19 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/romans/7/1) Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? [2 ](/kjv/romans/7/2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to *her* husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of *her* husband. [3 ](/kjv/romans/7/3) So then if, while *her* husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. [4 ](/kjv/romans/7/4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, *even* to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. [5 ](/kjv/romans/7/5) For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. [6 ](/kjv/romans/7/6) But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not *in* the oldness of the letter. [7 ](/kjv/romans/7/7) What shall we say then? *Is* the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. [8 ](/kjv/romans/7/8) But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin *was* dead. [9 ](/kjv/romans/7/9) For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. [10 ](/kjv/romans/7/10) And the commandment, which *was ordained* to life, I found *to be* unto death. [11 ](/kjv/romans/7/11) For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew *me*. [12 ](/kjv/romans/7/12) Wherefore the law *is* holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. [13 ](/kjv/romans/7/13) Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. [14 ](/kjv/romans/7/14) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. [15 ](/kjv/romans/7/15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. [16 ](/kjv/romans/7/16) If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that *it is* good. [17 ](/kjv/romans/7/17) Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. [18 ](/kjv/romans/7/18) For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but *how* to perform that which is good I find not. [19 ](/kjv/romans/7/19) For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 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