For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
For sin (that is, my sinful nature), taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me - drew me aside into the very thing which the commandment forbade, And by it slew me - discovered me to myself to be a condemned and gone man (cf. , "I died").
Verse Romans 7:11. _SIN, TAKING OCCASION_] Sin, deriving strength from the law, threatening death to the transgressor, (Romans 7:8,) _deceived me_, drew me aside to disobedience, promising me gratifi...
FOR SIN - This verse is a repetition, with a little variation of the sentiment in Romans 7:8. DECEIVED ME - The word used here properly means to lead or seduce from the right way; and then to deceive,...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_ 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .) 4. The Experienc...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
DECEIVED. Greek. _exapatao._ Here, Romans 16:18. 1Co 3:18. 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:3....
_For sin_, &c. A reiteration of Romans 7:8, with more detail. The "deception" here is fully illustrated by the history of the Fall. (Cp. carefully Genesis 3:4-5.) The Tempter "took occasion by" the pr...
Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in each man, as the law could not do. (7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of sin, as, for instance, co...
ἘΞΗΠΆΤΗΣΕΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. Here we get nearest to personification of ἡ ἁμ., with the echo of Genesis 2:13; cf. 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14. The deceit lies in the representation of the satisfaction of t...
ΛΑΒΟΫ́ΣΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать (_см._ Romans 7:8). ΈΞΗΠΆΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΞΑΠΑΤΆΩ (G1818) обманывать полностью, сбивать с верного пути (RWP). Предложное сочетание может...
FOR SIN, TAKING OCCASION— "Sin, taking the opportunity of my being under the law, slew me." See the note on Romans 7:5. Instead of _deceived me,_ Mr. Locke reads, _inveigled me;_ and observes, that St...
TEXT Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
7:11 deceived (k-11) A strong form of the word, 'to deceive wholly.' see ch. 16.18 and 1 Timothy 2:14 ....
THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter ...
DECEIVED] RV 'beguiled': cp. Genesis 3:13. 'All sin is committed under a deception, momentary at least, as to (1) the satisfaction to be found in it, (2) the excuse to be made for it, (3) the probabil...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25 1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6 V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
(11-13) The cause of this miscarriage lay not with the Law but with Sin. Sin played the tempter, and then made use of the Commandment to condemn and destroy its victims. All this time the Law (_i.e.,_...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought...
CHAPTER 16 THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans 7:7 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans 6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
Yet this result is not due to the commandment in itself. It is indwelling sin, inherited from Adam, which, when it has found a base of operations, employs the commandment to deceive (_cf._ Genesis 3:1...
THE LAW MAKES SIN KNOWN Romans 7:1 To make his meaning clear the Apostle now enters upon a parable drawn from domestic life. He says that we are married to the Law as our first husband, and seek, thr...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN. Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.) The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having involved man in death (Romans 7...
a. “ _And I was alive when I was formerly without law; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;_ ” Calvin well expresses the rhythm of these verses: “The death of sin is the life of ma...
This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
11._Led me out of the way, etc. _It is indeed true, that while the will of God is hid from us, and no truth shines on us, the life of men goes wholly astray and is full of errors; nay, we do nothing b...
We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
FOR SIN TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT,.... As in Romans 7:8, DECEIVED ME; either by promising pleasure or impunity: the same effect is ascribed by the Jews to the evil imagination or corruption...
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew _me_. Ver. 11. _Deceived me_] Irritated my corrupt nature, and made me sin the more, _per accidens, _ as Pharaoh was the worse...
_For I was alive_ In my own conceit; _without the law_ Without the proper knowledge of its spirituality, extent, and obligation. I apprehended myself to be righteous, and in the way to life eternal; _...
FOR SIN; sin reigning in my soul. TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT; as Satan in Eden took occasion of the prohibition to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge. DECEIVED ME; as Satan did Eve, and...
THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT. The object of the Law:...
FOR SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, DECEIVED ME, AND BY IT SLEW ME....
CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and...
7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD? Is it a blessing or a curse? What did the law do? 1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7 2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8 3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9 4....
FOR SIN, FINDING OCCASION, THROUGH THE COMMANDMENT BEGUILED ME, AND THROUGH IT SLEW ME. "BEGUILED ME" -1818. exapatao ex-ap-at-ah'-o; from 1537 and 538; to seduce wholly: -beguile, deceive. 'And this...
7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
FOR SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT: see the notes on ROMANS 7:8. DECEIVED ME; i.e. seduced and drew me aside, HEBREWS 3:13 JAMES 1:14. AND BY IT SLEW ME; i.e. it drove me into despair, or del...
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me....
Romans 7:11 For G1063 sin G266 taking G2983 (G5631) occasion G874 by G1223 commandment G1785 deceived G1818 ...
‘For sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.' And what was to blame for what had happened to him? It was sin (not the Law). Sin had taken advantage of the c...
PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW (7:7-13). Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
Romans 7:11. FOR SIN, etc. In Romans 7:8, which resembles this, Paul explains the excitement of evil desire through the law; namely, how sin revived, but here he explains the other phrase: ‘I died.' T...
2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_. The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans 7:7), but...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
BEGUILED ME (εξηπατησεν με). First aorist active indicative of εξαπαταω, old verb, completely (εξ) made me lose my way (α privative, πατεω, to walk). See on 1 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 11:3....
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
Romans 7:7 A Chapter in Saul's Early Life. I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God itself. On the contrary,...
Romans 7:11 I. The sentiment of law, nowadays, is killing the living consciousness in man; it was so, it has been so, in all ages; man is not only in danger from the great majesties of nature, he is i...
This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
Romans 7:1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature. Impossibility of victory through the law. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
SIN FOUND ITS CHANCE. Because men were under the Law, sin found its chance to first fool them and then to kill them. Yet this result is not due to the Law itself, since this would make God responsible...
TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER? _To the unregenerate.--_ It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and t...
_What shall we say then?_ Is the law sin? God forbid. THE LAW I. Its nature-- 1. Moral. 2. Spiritual. 3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted. II. Its use-- 1. To describe the natu...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 7:1 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels the claims of human law on a person (cf....
Romans chapter 7. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) (Romans 7:1) In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has dominion over a man as long as h...
Ephesians 4:22; Hebrews 3:13; Isaiah 44:20; James 1:22; James 1:26;...
Deceived [ε ξ η π α τ η σ ε ν]. Rev., beguiled Only in Paul. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:3....
THE INWARD CONFLICT Romans 7:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a husband, is...
Deceived me — While I expected life by the law, sin came upon me unawares and slew all my hopes....
As if the apostle had said, " SIN, or the corruption of my heart and nature, being stirred up by the commandment which forbids lust, and condemns it, enticed me, and persuaded me, and prevailed over m...