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Text -- Romans 7:1-12 (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 .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sin |
Justification |
Rome |
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Romans, Epistle to the |
Death |
Law |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
SALVATION |
LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
Good and Evil |
Marriage |
Holiness |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X |
Righteousness |
Depravity of Mankind |
Fruit |
Decalogue |
HOW |
CONCUPISCENCE |
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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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