Let beer be for those who are perishing,
    wine(A) for those who are in anguish!

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Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

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Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life(A) actually brought death.

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10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(A)

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24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

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25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(A)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(B) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

25 I 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.

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Life Through the Spirit

Therefore, there is now no condemnation(A) for those who are in Christ Jesus,(B)

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There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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