Romans 7:1-6
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6... [ Continue Reading ]
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO, THEN, IF, WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH, SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS; BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW, SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS, THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH, THE MOTIONS OF SINS WHICH WERE BY THE LAW DID WORK IN OUR MEMBERS TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD, THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER. Paul here introduces another illustration of the statement in v. 14 of the preceding chapter that we are not under the Law, but under grace: O... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT. The object of the Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, WROUGHT IN ME ALL MANNER OF CONCUPISCENCE. FOR WITHOUT THE LAW SIN WAS DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE; BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED AND I DIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE COMMANDMENT WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE I FOUND TO BE UNTO DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, DECEIVED ME, AND BY IT SLEW ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND JUST, AND GOOD. In the previous section the apostle had testified to the Christians that they had been freed both from sin and from the Law, thus placing emancipation from the slavery of sin and from the yoke of the Law on the same level. He n... [ Continue Reading ]
The practical effect of this teaching:... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS, THEN, THAT WHICH IS GOOD MADE DEATH UNTO ME? GOD FORBID! BUT SIN, THAT IT MIGHT APPEAR SIN, WORKING DEATH IN ME BY THAT WHICH IS GOOD, THAT SIN BY THE COMMANDMENT MIGHT BECOME EXCEEDING SINFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL; BUT I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT; FOR WHAT I WOULD, THAT DO I NOT; BUT WHAT I HATE, THAT DO I.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, THEN, I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT, I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, THEN, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME. To make sure that every misunderstanding is definitely removed, Paul here, in speaking of the struggle of the regenerated for sanctification, asks: Has the good, then, become death to me? Is the commandment, which is holy, just, and... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS, IN MY FLESH) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING; FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT WITH ME, BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The struggle between the flesh and the spirit in the believer:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE GOOD THAT I WOULD I DO NOT; BUT THE EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT, THAT I DO.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME. St. Paul here, for the sake of emphasis, repeats and amplifies his statements concerning the struggle between flesh and spirit in the regenerate: For I know that there lives not in me, that is, in my flesh, anythi... [ Continue Reading ]
I FIND, THEN, A LAW, THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?... [ Continue Reading ]
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. St. Paul now gives an explanation of the peculiar situation which he has just described. He has discovered and found, by experience, a constant fact, a rule, or law, t... [ Continue Reading ]