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Romans 7:2

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  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1163

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 221-222

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/2007, pp. 18-19

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1163; it-2 221-222; w07 2/15 18-19;

    w62 220; w61 703; w56 590; w55 763

Romans 7:3

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  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1163

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1163;

    w61 703; w60 715; w56 590

Romans 7:4

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  • Publications Index

    ts 105-106; g72 11/22 7; w67 206

Romans 7:5

Footnotes

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    7:5 Or that operate by the law Lit. the through-the-law susceptibilities to sins

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  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 966

  • Publications Index

    it-2 966;

    g79 7/8 11; w72 287-288

Romans 7:6

Footnotes

  • *

    7:6 Or disengaged from the law, having died to that in which we

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 599

  • Publications Index

    it-1 599;

    g72 11/22 7; w69 607; im 282; w61 679; w52 150; w45 331

Romans 7:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 224, 966-967

  • Publications Index

    it-2 224, 966-967;

    g79 7/8 11; w73 464; w72 287-288; g72 11/22 7; ad 1507; g69 3/8 27; im 282; w54 251; w52 150; rm 138; w48 151; w40 126

Romans 7:8

Footnotes

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    7:8 Lit. produced in me all coveting

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 966-967

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/2008, p. 30

  • Publications Index

    it-2 966-967; w08 6/15 30;

    w72 287-288; g72 11/22 7; ad 1507; im 282; rm 138

Romans 7:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 224, 248, 262

  • Publications Index

    it-2 224, 248, 262;

    g72 11/22 7; ad 1063; im 282; w55 414; w45 332

Romans 7:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 979

  • Publications Index

    it-2 979

Romans 7:11

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  • Publications Index

    w65 648; im 282

Romans 7:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1139

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 809-811

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1987, pp. 11-12

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1139; it-2 810; w87 11/1 11-12;

    g76 6/8 27-28; ad 788; w65 648

Romans 7:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 549

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1992, p. 5

  • Publications Index

    it-1 549; w92 11/1 5;

    g79 7/8 11; w65 713; w48 183; w38 300

Romans 7:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 735, 979

  • Publications Index

    it-2 735, 979;

    g79 7/8 11; w78 2/1 17; gh 116; w74 369-370; ad 1373, 1516; li 51; w65 713, 719

Romans 7:15

Footnotes

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    7:15-16 Lit. For not what I will, that I carry on, but what I hate, that I do; but if what I do not will, that I do Similarly in verses 19-20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    12/2016, p. 11

  • Publications Index

    w16.12 11;

    lp 172-173; w65 713; w58 426

Romans 7:16

Footnotes

  • *

    7:16 Lit. agree with the law that it is fine

Romans 7:17

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  • *

    7:17, 20 Lit. that work it out, but

Romans 7:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 986

    The Watchtower (Study),

    5/2016, p. 19

    The Watchtower,

    8/1/1996, pp. 13-14

  • Publications Index

    it-1 986; w16.05 19; w96 8/1 13-14;

    bw 102-103; w78 5/1 18; w58 342

Romans 7:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1991, p. 31

  • Publications Index

    w91 9/1 31;

    bw 102-103; w78 2/1 20-21; lp 172-173; w65 713; g64 7/22 27

Romans 7:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    5/1/1997, p. 4

  • Publications Index

    w97 5/1 4;

    w78 2/1 20-21; lp 173; g75 5/22 28; w51 624

Romans 7:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 605

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2011, p. 11

    Live Forever, p. 217

  • Publications Index

    it-1 605; w11 11/15 11; pe 217;

    w73 511; ad 437; w65 713; g64 2/8 27; w63 106; w59 678

Romans 7:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 605

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 221, 305

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2011, p. 11

  • Publications Index

    it-1 605; it-2 221, 305; w11 11/15 11;

    w73 511; w71 432-433; ad 437; w65 713; g64 2/8 27; w58 112

Romans 7:23

Footnotes

  • *

    7:23 Lit. taking me prisoner in the

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    3/2024, p. 9

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 605

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 221, 404-405, 964-965, 1169

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/2013, pp. 13-14

    11/15/2011, p. 11

    6/15/2008, p. 30

    12/1/1997, p. 11

    12/1/1990, p. 17

  • Publications Index

    w24.03 9; it-1 605; it-2 221, 404-405, 964-965, 1169; w13 4/15 13-14; w11 11/15 11; w08 6/15 30; w97 12/1 11; w90 12/1 17;

    w74 369-370; w73 511; w71 432-433; ad 437, 1506; w65 713; g64 2/8 27; w59 678; w58 112; w51 624

Romans 7:24

Footnotes

  • *

    7:24 Lit. the body of this death

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 605

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2017, p. 8

  • Publications Index

    it-1 605; w17.11 8;

    cj 158; lp 173-174; w73 511; ad 437; w65 713, 719; w59 678

Romans 7:25

Footnotes

  • *

    7:25 Var. but thanks be

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 605

    The Watchtower (Study),

    11/2017, p. 12

    The Watchtower,

    12/1/1997, p. 11

  • Publications Index

    it-1 605; w17.11 12; w97 12/1 11;

    lp 173-174; w74 252; ad 437; w65 333, 713, 720; w59 678; w58 111; ew 59

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Romans 7:1-25

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7 Or are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to men who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over man so long as he is alive? 2 For the wedded woman is bound to the living husband by the law; but if the husband dies she is disengaged from the husband’s law. 3 So while the husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if another man gets her; but if the husband dies she is free from the law so as not to be an adulteress when another man does get her. 4 Hence, my brothers, you too were brought into death to the law through the Christ’s body so that another might get you, he who rose from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5* For when we were in the flesh the susceptibilities to sin that come by the law were at work in our organism so that we should bear fruit for death, 6* but now we have been disengaged, having died, from the law in which we were held under, so that we serve in the new relation of spirit and not in the old relation of letter.

7 What shall we therefore say? “the law is sin”? away with the thought! but I should not have known sin except through the law. For I should not know about coveting if the law did not say “You shall not covet.” 8* But sin, getting a start by the commandment, produced in me a coveting of everything. For without the law sin is dead; 9 and I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came sin came to life, and I died; 10 and for me the commandment, the very thing that led to life, was found to lead to death, 11 since sin, getting a start by the commandment, tricked me, and killed me through it.

12 Consequently: the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.— 13 Then did the good become death for me? away with the thought, but sin did, in order that it might appear as sin, producing death for me through the good, in order that sin might come out supremely sinful through the commandment.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold under sin. 15* For I do not know the product I am working out. For it is not just what I have a will for that I am busy at, it is just what I hate that I am doing; 16* but if I am doing just what I have no will for, I agree that the law is fine. 17* And now it is no longer I that work out what ensues, but my inmate sin. 18 For I know that there does not reside in me, that is, in my flesh, anything good; for to will is within my reach, but to work out what would be a fine thing is not, 19 for I do not do the good thing which I will, but it is just the bad thing which I do not will that I am busy at. 20 But if it is just what I do not will that I do, it is no longer I that work out what ensues, but sin residing in me. 21 I find the law, then, for me who have the will to do the fine thing, that the bad is what is laid out for me. 22 For I am in sympathy with the law of God as to my inward man, 23* but I see another law in my organism waging war with the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin that is in my organism. 24* Wretched man I! who will deliver me out of the body that carries this death? 25* thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ!—So then I myself belong in mind to the service of God’s law, but in flesh to that of sin’s law.

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