Romans 7 - Compare Translations
3 translations side by side. Tap any verse number to hear it read aloud.
3 translations
Romans 7:1
KJVKnow 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?
WEBOr don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
YLTAre ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?
Romans 7:2
KJVFor 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.
WEBFor the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
YLTfor the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;
Romans 7:3
KJVSo 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.
WEBSo then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
YLTso, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.
Romans 7:4
KJVWherefore, 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.
WEBTherefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
YLTSo that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
Romans 7:5
KJVFor 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.
WEBFor when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
YLTfor when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
Romans 7:6
KJVBut 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.
WEBBut now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
YLTand now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
Romans 7:7
KJVWhat 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.
WEBWhat shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
YLTWhat, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
Romans 7:8
KJVBut sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
WEBBut sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
YLT`Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.
Romans 7:9
KJVFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
WEBI was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
YLTAnd I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
Romans 7:10
KJV
WEB
YLT
Romans 7:11
KJVFor sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
WEBfor sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
YLTfor the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];
Romans 7:12
KJVWherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
WEBTherefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
YLTso that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 7:13
KJVWas 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.
WEBDid then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
YLTThat which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
Romans 7:14
KJVFor we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
WEBFor we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
YLTfor we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
Romans 7:15
KJVFor that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
WEBFor I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
YLTfor that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.
Romans 7:16
KJVIf then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
WEBBut if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
YLTAnd if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,
Romans 7:17
KJVNow then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
WEBSo now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
YLTand now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,
Romans 7:18
KJVFor 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.
WEBFor I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
YLTfor I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,
Romans 7:19
KJVFor the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
WEBFor the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
YLTfor the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.
Romans 7:20
KJV
WEB
YLT
Romans 7:21
KJVI find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
WEBI find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
YLTI find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
Romans 7:22
KJVFor I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
WEBFor I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
YLTfor I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
Romans 7:23
KJVBut I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
WEBbut I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
YLTand I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.
Romans 7:24
KJVO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
WEBWhat a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
YLTA wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Romans 7:25
KJVI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
WEBI thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
YLTI thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
25 verses compared across 3 translations - KJV, WEB, YLT