Romans Chapter 7:
(7)What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what c0veting really was if the law had not said. "Do not c0vet".
(8)But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produces in me every kind of c0vetous des1re. For apart from law, sin is .
(9)Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
(10)I found that every commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought de@th.
(11) For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, dece1ved me, and through the commandment put me to de@th.
(12)So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
(13)Did that which is good, then, become de@th to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognnized as sin, it produced de@th in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
(14)We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
(15)I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, i do not do, but what I , I do.
(16)And if I do what I do not want to do, i agree that the law is good
(17)As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but is sin living in me.
(18)I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
(19)For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the ev1l I do not want to do -this is what I keep on doing.
(20)Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no loner I who do it, but sin living in me that does it.
(21)So I find this law at work: when I want to do good, ev1l is right there within me
(22)For in my inner being, I delight in God's law;
(23)But I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
(24)What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from the body of de@th?
(25)Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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