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Text -- Romans 7:1-25 (NET)
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The Believer’s Relationship to the Law
7:1 Or do you not know , brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law ), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives ?
7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives , but if her husband dies , she is released from the law of the marriage.
7:3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive , she will be called an adulteress . But if her husband dies , she is free from that law , and if she is joined to another man , she is not an adulteress .
7:4 So , my brothers and sisters , you also died to the law through the body of Christ , so that you could be joined to another , to the one who was raised from the dead , to bear fruit to God .
7:5 For when we were in the flesh , the sinful desires , aroused by the law , were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death .
7:6 But now we have been released from the law , because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code .
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? Absolutely not ! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law . For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said , “Do not covet .”
7:8 But sin , seizing the opportunity through the commandment , produced in me all kinds of wrong desires . For apart from the law , sin is dead .
7:9 And I was once alive apart from the law , but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
7:10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death !
7:11 For sin , seizing the opportunity through the commandment , deceived me and through it I died .
7:12 So then , the law is holy , and the commandment is holy , righteous , and good .
7:13 Did that which is good , then , become death to me ? Absolutely not ! But sin , so that it would be shown to be sin , produced death in me through what is good , so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful .
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual , sold into slavery to sin .
7:15 For I don’t understand what I am doing . For I do not do what I want – instead , I do what I hate .
7:16 But if I do what I don’t want , I agree that the law is good .
7:17 But now it is no longer me doing it , but sin that lives in me .
7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me , that is , in my flesh . For I want to do the good , but I cannot do it.
7:19 For I do not do the good I want , but I do the very evil I do not want !
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want , it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me .
7:21 So , I find the law that when I want to do good , evil is present with me .
7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being .
7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members .
7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death ?
7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord ! So then , I myself serve the law of God with my mind , but with my flesh I serve the law of sin .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sin |
Justification |
Romans, Epistle to the |
Rome |
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
Good and Evil |
Mankind |
Sanctification |
Stoicism |
Depravity of Mankind |
Death |
LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
Law |
Conscience |
Salvation |
Marriage |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 4 |
GOOD |
Regeneration |
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NET Notes: Rom 7:2 Paul’s example of the married woman and the law of the marriage illustrates that death frees a person from obligation to the law. Thus, in spiri...
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NET Notes: Rom 7:5 Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.
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NET Notes: Rom 7:10 Grk “and there was found in/for me the commandment which was for life – this was for death.”
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