21. What advantage had ye then, in those things whereof ye are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. 22. But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have the fruits of holiness, whose end is everlasting life. 23. For eternal death is the wages of sin, but eternal (bliss) is the gift of God, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAP. VII.

THE RITUAL LAW'S TERM.

Know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law of Moses, that the law ruleth over a man so long as it liveth (or is in force)? 2. For the woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to him, as long as he liveth; but if he be dead, she is loosed from that law. 3. But while he liveth, if she be married to another, she is called an adulteress; but he being dead, she is no adulteress, tho' she be married to another.

4. Thus ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the (ritual) law by the death of Christ, that ye might be, (as it were) married to another, even to Christ who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth the fruit of obedience to God. 5. For when we were in the flesh, (under the carnal dispensation of the ritual law, and not spiritually minded) the motions of sinful passions, which were irritated by the law forbidding them, were active in our members, to bring forth (sinful) fruit to death (eternal, James i. 15.) 6. But now we are set at liberty from (our obligation to) the (ritual) law, that obligation by which we were held being (disannulled), that we should serve in a new and spiritual manner, and not in the oldness of the letter (or ceremonial formality).

7. What shall we say then, Is the law (evil, or does it lead to) sin? God forbid! nay, I had not, (in various cases), known sin (to be evil and dan

gerous) but by the law; for I had not known (the evil of) lust, (or evil desires, James i. 15). unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. s. But sin (in the heart), taking occasion by the command (forbidding it to rush on things forbidden, and covet things denied), wrought in me all kinds of evil desires; for without the law sin appeared (to be no more dangerous than a) dead (enemy). 9. For I once seemed to myself alive, (having no fear of death for sin), without the law; but when the command came (with awakening power), sin, (like a dead enemy), revived, and my hope died (with fear of it). 10. And the command appointed for giving life to them that keep it, I found dooming me to death for breaking it. 11. For sin, taking occasion by the terror and curse of the broken command, deceived me, (so as to cause despair), and thereby slew me.

12. But the law and every command of it, is holy, (or pure), just, and good.

13. Was then what is good made death to me, (or the cause of my ruin?) God forbid! but sin to appear what it is, in working death in me by (the occasion of) what is good, (in perverting its use and end), that by the command (so perverted), it might appear exceeding sinful. 14. For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, yea, subject (as a slave) to sin. 15. For what I (am prone to) do, I approve not; and what I would, I do not; but what I hate, (I am ready to) do.

16. If then I do what I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17. So then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me, 18. For I know that in me, even (in my flesh, or sensual appetite), dwells nothing good; for to will (what is good) I find a desire, but I find not how to perform it. 19. For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not (I am prone to do). 20. Now, if I do what I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21. I find when I would do good, an inclination to evil is then present with me. 22. For with regard to the inner man (the mind) I delight in the law of God. 23. But I find another disposition in my members making war against the renewed resolution of my mind, and captivating me to the sinful propensity of my passions.

24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death? 25. I thank God, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord (the deliverer). Do I then, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the sensual appetite the sinful dispositions? By no means.

CHAP. VIII.

WHO ARE FREE OF CONDEMNATION.

THERE is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, (having the Christian faith and pràctice), who live not according to the flesh, (or sensual appetite), but according to the Spirit, (or the spiritual principle.) 2. For the grace of the quickening Spirit of Christ Jesus, hath set me at liberty from the dominion of sin and eternal death. 3. For what the law could not do, because of the weakness of the flesh, (or sinful nature of man, in our present state), God (of his grace hath done by) sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, (being without the shining brightness of man's body at first, the loss of which was called nakedness, Gen. iii. 7.) and by a sacrifice for sin, he condemned and conquered sin in the flesh, or human nature. 4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled, by all holy obedience to it, by us who live not according to the sensual appetite, but the spiritual principle. 5. For they who are under the influence of the sensual appetite, desire the things that gratify it; but they who are under the influence of the spiritual principle, delight in the

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things suitable to it. 6. For to be carnally minded is death and destruction; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace: 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8. So they who live to the lusts of the flesh, can. not please God. 9. But ye live not to the flesh, but to the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now, whoever has not the Spirit of Christ, is none of his. 10. And if Christ be in you by his Spirit, tho' the body be dead, on account of sin, (by Adam), yet the spirit is living or happy, thro' righteousness, (by Christ, 1 Cor. xv. 22).

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But if his Spirit, who raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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12. Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the lusts of the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live according to the flesh ye shall die eternally; but if ye thro' the Spirit mortify the sinful lusts of the body ye shall five eternally happy. 14. For whoever are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage (Heb. xii. 21.) again to be in fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, (Gal. v. 22. Eph. v. 9.) 17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. 18. For I reckon the sufferings of the present time not worthy to be compared to the glory to be revealed to us. 19. For the earnest expectation of the whole creation waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God (at last). 20. For the creation was made subject to vanity, (by sin), not by its own will, or (deed), but by him, to wit, (Adam), who subjected

it. 21. But there is hope (of a renovation, 2 Pet. iii. 13.) that the creation itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption, unto the glorious liberty of the sons of God (at the last day). 22. For we know that the whole creation (as it were) groans and travails in pain together until now, (Isa. xxiv. 6. Jer. xii. 4.) 23. And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, (Gal. v. 22.) groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body from death, (1 Cor. xv. 52.) 24. For we are saved by hope: but hope that enjoys is not hope; for what a man possesseth, how can he yet hope for it? 25. But if we hope for what we see not, then we wait with patience for that future glory. 26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our weaknesses: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself maketh intercession in us with groanings which cannot be expressed. 27. And God that searcheth the hearts knoweth the mind of the Spirit, that he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who are the called according to his purpose. 29. For whom he foreknew, he also before appointed to be conformed to the image of his Son, (in holiness), that he might have the pre-eminence among many brethren. 30. Moreover, whom he before appointed, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31. What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can prevail against us? 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up to death for us all, shall he not also with him freely give us all things? 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's chosen, to condemn them? It is God that justifieth; 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died (for our sins); yea,