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 husband as
long as he is alive; but, if her husband dies, she is completely
discharged from the law... [ Continue Reading ]
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, "You
must not covet." For, when sin had, through the commandment, obtained
a foothold, it produced ev... [ Continue Reading ]
We are aware that the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh
and blood under the power of sin. I cannot understand what I do. What
I want to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. If what I
do not want to do I in point of fact do, then I acquiesce in the law,
and I agree that it i... [ Continue Reading ]