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Romans 7:5
For when we lived. Before we died with Christ. Stirred up by the Law. We would not recognize these desires, if the Law did not identify them (Galatians 5:24; Romans 7:9-10).
For when we lived. Before we died with Christ. Stirred up by the Law. We would not recognize these desires, if the Law did not identify them (Galatians 5:24; Romans 7:9-10).
Verse Romans 7:5. _FOR, WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH_] When we were without the Gospel, in our carnal and unregenerated state, though believing in the law of Moses, and performing the _rites_ and _office...
FOR WHEN ... - The illustration in this verse and the following is designed to show more at length the effect of the Law, whenever and whereever applied; whether in a state of nature or of grace. It w...
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...
ESPOUSAL TO CHRIST. Paul returns to his paradox about Law and Grace (Romans 6:14 f.) and illustrates it by marriage, _Christ_ now standing for _Grace._ ROMANS 7:1. Wedlock binds while the husband li...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
You are bound to know, brothers--for I speak to men who know what law means--that the law has authority over a man only for the duration of his life. Thus, a married woman remains bound by law to her...
IN THE FLESH. Compare Romans 1:3; Romans 2:28; Romans 8:8; Romans 8:9. MOTIONS OF SINS. sinful passions (emphasis on "sinful"). Figure of speech Antime
_when we were in the flesh_ For illustration of this important phrase see especially Romans 8:8-9. St Paul here assumes of Christians (1) that they were once "in the flesh;" (2) that they are so no lo...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
ἯΜΕΝ ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΣΑΡΚΊ = ὁ πάλαιος ἄνθρωπος of Romans 6:6. ΤᾺ ΠΑΘΉΜΑΤΑ ΤΩ͂Ν ἉΜ.: ΠΑΘΉΜΑΤΑ only Paul, Heb. and 1 Pet. = (1) sufferings, cf. Romans 8:18, and commonly; (2) = experiences, here and Galatians...
ΉΜΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Impf._ изображает прошлую жизнь, ΣΑΡΚΊ _dat. sing. от_ ΣΆΡΞ (G4561) плоть, человеческая природа, контролируемая и управляемая грехом, что проявляется в д...
FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH, &C.— The design of this chapter is, to convince the Jews how unfavourable the law, in its rigour, is to the recovery and sanctification of a sinner; as it affords neithe...
_TEXT_ Romans 7:1-6.Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? Romans 7:2 For the woman that hath a husban...
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. FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH. Here, for the first time in this E...
__ 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...
MOTIONS OF SINS] RV 'sinful passions.' 'Passions' = passive feelings, e.g. hunger; sinful, when they control the will. BY THE LAW] cp. Romans 7:7; Romans 5:20, and on Romans 6:14....
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 ...
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...
VII. (1-6) The Apostle takes up an idea to which he had alluded in Romans 7:14 of the preceding chapter, “Ye are not under the Law, but under grace;” and as he had worked out the conclusion of the dea...
The new alliance ought not to be unproductive, for the old alliance was not unproductive. Before that mortification of the flesh which proceeds from our relation to the death of Christ, we bore a frui...
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...
Contrast of the earlier life. “ ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ ” is materially the same as “ ὑπὸ τὸν νόμον ”; the same state of the soul is described more from within and more from without. The opposite would be ἐν τῷ π...
For ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, _cf._ Romans 6:3. Chap. 6 contains the argument which is illustrated in these verses, and the question alludes to it: not to accept the argument that the Christian is free from all leg...
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...
(3) For when we (e) were in the flesh, the (f) motions of sins, which were by the (g) law, did (h) work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. (3) A declaration of the former saying: for he s...
For _when we were in the flesh; i.e. lived according to the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law: he does not say, as St. John Chrysostom observes, that they were caused by the law, but...
“ _For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, excited by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death;_ ” The _for_ evidently bears not on Romans 7:5 only, but on Roma...
FIFTEENTH PASSAGE (7:1-6). THE BELIEVER IS SET FREE FROM THE LAW AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE IS SET FREE FROM SIN. AGREEABLY to the proposition stated Romans 6:14: “Sin shall no more have dominion over y...
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? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husba...
5._For when we were, etc. _He shows still more clearly by stating the contrary effect, how unreasonably the zealots of the law acted, who would still detain the faithful under its dominion; for as lon...
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 WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH,.... This respects not their being under the legal dispensation, the Mosaic economy; which lay greatly in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, su...
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. Ver. 5. _In the flesh_] In our pure naturals. _ The motions of sin...
_For_ We ought now to be fruitful in good works, because we were formerly fruitful in evil: _when we were in the flesh_ Under the comparatively carnal dispensation of Moses, and in our natural corrupt...
IN THE FLESH; in their natural state, with no ground for justification except obedience to law, and under the necessity of perfectly obeying it or suffering its curse. Its strict requirements and its...
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....
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6...
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...
5-6 THEME: Sin in the flesh lead to death. We should serve in newness of the spirit. THEME : NOT: Oldness of the letter BUT: Newness of spirit DISCUSS : 1. What is the difference between "letter...
MOTIONS: _ Gr._ passions...
FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH, THE SINFUL PASSIONS, WHICH WERE THROUGH THE LAW, WROUGHT IN OUR MEMBERS TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH. "FOR" -here is the reason that we were released from. system of...
1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, c...
FOR: q.d. For bringing forth of which fruit unto God, we have now better helps than formerly we had; or we are in much better circumstances than formerly we were: and so he proceeds to show how our pr...
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death....
Romans 7:5 For G1063 when G3753 were G2258 (G5713) in G1722 flesh G4561 sinful G266 passions G3804 which...
DELIVERANCE FROM UNDER THE LAW (7:1-6). Paul now declares that the Christian is delivered from the dominion of the Law because he has died to it in the death of Christ, and this in order that he might...
‘For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.' For when we were living our old lives under the Law (we were i...
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...
1. WE ARE FREED FROM IT (ROMANS 7:1); FOR, 2, ALTHOUGH IT IS HOLY, IT CANNOT MAKE SINNERS HOLY (ROMANS 7:7). 1. _Christians are freed from the Law._ This section might more properly form a part of th...
Romans 7:5. FOR. A confirmation of the statement that they should bring forth fruit to God. WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH, _i.e.,_ in the natural condition of depravity (see Excursus at next section); s...
IN THE FLESH (εν τη σαρκ). Same sense as in Romans 6:19 and Romans 7:18; Romans 7:25. The "flesh" is not inherently sinful, but is subject to sin. It is what Paul means by being "under the law." He...
Romans 7:1 "Law _versus_Grace.". Note: I. St. Paul's maxim that it is death which puts an end to all obligation created by statute law. Expositors have often remarked how fond this apostle was of le...
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...
_Know ye not, brethren … how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?_ BELIEVERS NOT UNDER THE LAW AS A COVENANT OF WORKS I. All men are, naturally, under the law as a covenant of...
_But when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death._ THE LAW AND SIN We often know that we are ill without knowing prec...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:5 FLESH here stands for the old “Adam”—the unbelieving former life of those who now believe. The law led to spiritual and physical DEATH (see...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:1.—The law is lord over the man. There is nothing shocking in the assertion that we are no longer under the law. You all know that the power of the law over a man ceases at...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:56; 1 John 3:4; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Colossians 3:5;...
When ye were in the flesh — Carnally minded, in a state of nature; before we believed in Christ. Our sins which were by the law — Accidentally occasioned, or irritated thereby. Wrought in our members...
As if the apostle had said, "When we lived under the dispensation of the law, and were married to the law, we brought forth fruit suitable to that state and condition. But now being freed from the law...