[Law and Bond] The law has dominion while a person lives, Death breaks the claim that the former bond gives. Joined to the risen, another fruit grows, Service in newness the Spirit now knows. [Verse I] Is the law sin? God forbid, it revealed The covetous motion the heart had concealed. The commandment was holy, righteous, and good, Yet sin took occasion where warning had stood. [Refrain] What I would do, I do not, What I hate, that rises again. The will is present, the strength is not, A war is awake in the inward man. [Verse II] The good that is wanted remains incomplete, The evil refused still returns to the street. I delight in God's law in the inward place, But another law wars and takes captive the frame. [Chorus] O wretched man that I am, Who shall deliver from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, The answer has entered the divided breath. O wretched man that I am, The cry is not final, deliverance is named. [Bridge] The law was not darkness, the command was not blame, It showed sin as sinful and stripped off its name. No self-made resolve can complete what is right, The captive must look beyond self for the light. [Final Chorus] O wretched man that I am, Who shall deliver from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, The war has an answer beyond human strength. [Outro] The chapter ends with conflict, But not without a Deliverer.