Polyglot Bible: Romans: Romans 7

This is Romans 7:1–25 presented as a parallel-text biblical resource, displaying the same passage in three versions side by side: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, and the Latin Vulgate. The format is a scholarly reference tool for comparing translations and tracing word-level correspondences across the original Greek, a major English translation, and the traditional Latin text. The passage itself is a Pauline theological argument in two movements. The first (vv. 1–6) uses marriage law as an analogy: just as a wife is legally freed from her husband's authority by his death, believers have "died to the Law" through Christ's body and are now free to belong to the risen Christ and bear fruit for God. The second and longer movement (vv. 7–25) defends the Law's goodness while diagnosing sin's mechanism: the Law is holy and good, but sin exploited the commandment to produce covetousness and death. This leads to the passage's most famous section — Paul's anguished first-person account of moral inner conflict, in which the "I" desires good but does evil, delights in God's Law inwardly while finding another "law" in the flesh warring against the mind and taking it captive. The passage closes with the cry "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" answered by thanksgiving through Jesus Christ, with the unresolved tension summarized: the mind serves God's law, the flesh serves sin's law.

Polyglot Bible: Romans: Romans 7

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