But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,
But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
Romans — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1. Know ye not, etc. Let the general proposition be that the law was given to men for no other end but to regulate the present life, and that it belongs not to those who are dead: to this he afterwards subjoins this truth -- that we are dead to…