[In Romans 6:14 Paul laid down the principle that sin does not have dominion over Christians, because they are not under law, but under grace. The section which we have just closed discusses the first clause of this proposition under the figure of slavery, and shows that sin does not have dominion o... [ Continue Reading ]
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. [If, on the one hand, ye are, as I have shown, emancipated from the horrible tyranny of sin, that ye may serve righteousness, so, on the other hand... [ Continue Reading ]
So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man. [If such freedom is accorded to the survivor, an equal liberty must be accorded... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. [While the marriage lasts the husband (law) has headship and control over the wife (mankind).... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. [These verses set forth the change in state and habit which results from our change of husbands, or the different fruitage of our lives... [ Continue Reading ]
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 [Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21], T_ hou shalt not covet_ :... [ Continue Reading ]
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from law sin is dead. [Those following the apostle through the last section would be apt to have confused views concerning the law, which would lead them to ask, "If it is such a blessed thing to be fr... [ Continue Reading ]
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;... [ Continue Reading ]
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death :... [ Continue Reading ]
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.... [ Continue Reading ]
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. [In the days of his youth (and perhaps also even in his young manhood-- Philippians 3:6), Paul had that free, untroubled conscience which is enjoyed by the innocent, and felt that he lived, and was entitled to live, before G... [ Continue Reading ]
Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. [Paul assumes an objection suggested by the word "good," as though some one sai... [ 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 know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.... [ Continue Reading ]
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. [But the law can not be sin, for it is spiritual; i. e., it is of divine origin, contains divine principles, and is addressed to the divine in man; and if man were as he should be, there would be no fault found with the law.... [ Continue Reading ]
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. [From what I have said it is apparent that it is not my spiritual or better self, uninfluenced by the flesh, which does the evil; but it is sin which dwells in my flesh that does it. If I were left to my spiritual self, uninfluenced by... [ 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 to do that which is good is not.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise. [I am not surprised that part of me rebels against God's law, for I know that in the fleshly part of my nature dwells no good thing. Sin dominates my flesh, so that none of the tendencies which come from that part... [ Continue Reading ]
But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.... [ Continue Reading ]
I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. [So then, I say again that I, in my own conscience, endorse the goodness of the law, for my spiritual nature wishes to perform its dictates, and only fails to do so because overcome by my fleshly nature, which sin has such power to... [ Continue Reading ]
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man :... [ Continue Reading ]
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. [And such a state of conflict is unavoidable; for, in my spiritual and intellectual nature, I not only approve, but actually delight in, the law of... [ Continue Reading ]
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?... [ Continue Reading ]
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. [Wretched or toil-worn man that I am, living in a state of perpetual warfare, now struggling to maintain my freedom under God's law, and anon led captive in... [ Continue Reading ]