The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. VII.

1. 7 12 The vse of the Law. 6. 24 And how Christ hathe de liuered vs from it. 16 The infirmitie of the faithful. 23 The dangerous fight betwene the flesh and the Spirit.

1 KNowe ye not, brethren, [for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe] that thea Law hathe dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?

2 *For theb woman which is in subiection to a man, is bounde by the law to the man, while he liueth: but if the man be dead, she is deli∣uered from the law of the man.

3 So then, if while the man liueth, she take another man, she shalbe called an* adulteres∣se: but if the man be dead, she is fre from the Law, so that she is not an adulteresse, thogh she take another man.

4 So ye, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by the bodie of Christ, that ye shulde be vn∣to another, (euen) vntoc him that is raised vp from the dead, that we shulde bring forthe

frute vnto God.

5 For when we wered in the flesh, the“ motiōs of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our membres, to bring for the frute vnto death.

6 But now we are deliuered from the Law, being deade vnto it, wherein we were holdē that we shulde serue in newnes of Spirit, and not in the oldenes of the letter.

7 What shal we say then? (Is) the Law sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Law: for I had not knowen glust, except the Law had said, * Thou shalt not lust.

8 But sinne toke an occasion by the cōmaun∣demēt, and wroght in me all maner of concu piscēce: for without the Law sinne (is) dead.

9 For I onceh was aliue, without the Law: but when the cōmandemēt came, sinne reuiued.

10 But I dyed: and the same commaundement which was (ordeined) vnto life, was founde (to be) vnto me vnto death.

11 For sinne toke occasion by the cōmaunde∣mēt, & disceiued me, and thereby slew (me).

12 Wherefore the Law (is*) holie, and the com maundement (is) holie, and iust, and good.

13 Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God 〈◊〉〈◊〉: but sinne, that it mighti appeare sinne, wroght death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinful by the commaundement.

14 For we knowe that the Lawek is spiritual, but I am carnal, solde vnder sinne.

15 For I alowe not that which I do: for what Il wolde, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

16 If I do then that which I wolde not, I con∣sent to the Law, that (itis) good.

17 Now then, it is no more I, that dom it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

18 For I knowe, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing for: to wil is pre∣sent with me: but I finde no meanes to per∣forme that which is good.

19 For I do not the good thing, which I wolde,n but the euil, which I wolde not, that do I.

20 Now if I do that I wolde not, it is no more I that do it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

21 I finde then by the Law, that when I wolde do good, euil is present with me.

22 For I delite in the Law of God, concernig theo inner man:

23 But I se another“ law in myp membres, rebel ling against the law of my minde, & leading me captiue vnto the law of sinne, which is in my membres.

24 Owreched man that I am, who shal deliuer me from theq bodie of this death!

25 I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Then I my self in myr minde serue the Law of God, but in mys slesh the law of sin∣ne.

Notes

• a

  Meaning, the moral Lawe.
• 1 Cor. 7. 39.
• b

  Bothe in this first mariage and in the seconde, the housband ād the wife must be considered with in our selues: the first housbād was Sinne, and our flesh was the wife: their chil∣dren 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the frutesof the flesh Gala. 5. 19.
• In the seconde mariage the Spi∣rit is the housbād the new creature is the wife, and their children are the frutes of the Spirit.
• c

  Which is the Spirit or the se∣conde housband
• d

  VVhen we were destitute of the Spirit of God.
• “

  Or, affections.
• e

  Meaning to sinne, our first housband.
• f There is no∣thing more ene∣mie to sinne then the Law if so be therefore that sinne rage more by reason thereof them be∣fore, why shulde it be imputed to the Lawe which discloseth the sleightes of sinne her enemie?
• h

  He thoght him sel to be aliue, when he knewe not the Lawe.
• Exod. 20, 7.
• Dent. 5. 21.
• g VVhich is an in warde vice not openly knowen.
• i

  Sinne being disclosed by the Lawe so muche more detestable because it tur∣neth the good∣nes of the Lawe to our destructiō
• 1. Tim. 1. 8.
• k

  So that it can iudge the affecti∣ons of the heart.
• l

  He is not able to do that which he desiret to do, and therefore is farre from the true perfection.
• m

  He doeth not excuse him self but sheweth that he is not a∣ble to accom∣plish that good desire whiche is in him.
• n

  The flesh stayeth euen the moste perfect to runne forwarde as the spirit wisheth.
• "Or, in my na∣ture.
• o

  That is, in my spirit.
• “

  Or commaunde ment.
• p

  Euen the corru∣ption which yet remaineth.
• q

  This fleshlie 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of sinne & death.
• r

  In that parte which is regene rate.
• s

  Which is the parte corrupted.