Christ’s Conquest - 7: 25
...Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ our Lord!
7: 23B
...making me captive to the law
of sin that dwells in my members.
7: 24
..Who will deliver me from this
body of death
7: 17
...it is no longer I who do it,
but sin that dwells within me.
7: 15B
...For I do not do what I want,
but I do the very thing I hate.
7: 14B
...but I am of the flesh, sold
under sin.
7:14A
We know that the law is
spiritual...
7: 13B
...that sin might be shown to be sin, and
through the commandment might become
sinful beyond measure...
7: 8
...sin, seizing an opportunity through the
commandment, produced in me all kinds of
covetousness...
7: 9C
...sin sprang to life and I died.
7: 9B
when the commandment came...
7: 7B
...I would not have known what it is to
covet if the law had not said, “You shall not
covet.”
7: 9A
...I was once alive
apart from the law...
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
...if it had not been for the law,
I would not have known sin...
7:3B
...if her husband dies, she is free
from the law, and not... an
adultress
Liberated from the Law - 7: 1-6
...the law is binding on a person
only as long as he lives...
Liberated from the Law - 7: 1-6
Rom 7:1 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to
those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person
only as long as he lives?
Rom 7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband
while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from
the law of marriage.
Rom 7:3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives
with another man while her husband is alive. But if her
husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she
marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Rom 7:4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law
through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to
another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order
that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful
passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members
to bear fruit for death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to
that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way
of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
The Law’s Lethal Lesson - 7: 7-24
Rom 7:7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the
law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had
not said, "You shall not covet."
Rom 7:8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of
covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Rom 7:9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive
and I died.
Rom 7:10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
Rom 7:11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it
killed me.
Rom 7:12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Rom 7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing
death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the
commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
Rom 7:16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
Rom 7:17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to
do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Rom 7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Rom 7:23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and
making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Christ’s Conquest - 7: 25
Rom 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.