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Romans 7
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Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that
the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? |
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| 7:2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so
long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of
her husband. |
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| 7:3
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she
shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from
that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another
man. |
 (7:4-6) Must Christians obey Old Testament laws?
(7:4) "Ye ... are become dead to the law."
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| 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye
also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should
bring forth fruit unto God.
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| 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. |
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But now we are delivered
from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve
in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. |
(7:6) "We are delivered from the law, that being dead."
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| 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known
sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou
shalt not covet. |
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| 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. |
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died. |
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And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. |
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew
me. |
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. |
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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that
it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by
the commandment might become exceeding sinful. |
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| 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. |
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| 7:15
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what
I hate, that do I. |
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| 7:16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is
good. |
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| 7:17
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. |
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For I know that in me
(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth
no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
which is good I find not. |
 (7:18) "In me .... dwelleth no good thing."
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| 7:19
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I
do. |
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Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me. |
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. |
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: |
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. |
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| 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death? |
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself
serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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