Romans
7:7-25
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 know what it was to Covet
If
the Law had not said,
'DO
NOT COVET.'
8
But Sin, seizing the Opportunity afforded by the Commandment,
PRODUCED
IN ME EVERY KIND OF COVETOUS DESIRE.
FOR
APART FROM THE LAW SIN IS DEAD.
9
Once I was alive apart from the Law;
But
when the Commandment came,
SIN
SPRANG TO LIFE AND I DIED.
10
I found that the very Command
That
was intended to bring life
ACTUALLY
BROUGHT DEATH.
11
For Sin, seizing the Opportunity afforded by the Commandment,
DECEIVED
ME,
And
through the Commandment
PUT
ME TO DEATH.
12
SO THE, THE LAW IS HOLY,
AND
THE COMMANDMENT IS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD.
13
DID THAT WHICH IS GOOD,
THEN,
BECOME DEATH TO ME?
BY
NO MEANS!
BUT
IN ORDER THAT SIN
MIGHT
BE RECOGNIZED AS SIN,
IT
PRODUCED DEATH 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 HATE 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
IT IS SIN LIVING IN ME.
18
I KNOW THAT NOTHING GOOD LIVES IN ME,
THAT
IS IN MY SINFUL NATURE.
FOR
I 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 EVIL I DO NOT WANT TO DO--
THIS
I KEEP ON DOING.
20
Now if I do what I do not want to do,
It
is no longer I who do it,
BUT
IT IS SIN LIVING IN ME THAT DOES IT.
21
So I find this Law at work:
WHEN
I WANT TO DO GOOD,
EVIL
IS RIGHT THERE WITH 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 THIS BODY OF DEATH?
25
THANKS BE TO GOD—
THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!
SO
THEN, I MY SELF IN MY MIND AM A SLAVE TO GOD'S LAW,
BUT
IN THE SINFUL NATURE A SLAVE TO THE LAW OF SIN.
(Romans
7)
Everyone
is Born with a Sin Nature
And
the only Escape from that Nature
Is to
allow Christ to live In and Through us;
To be
Born Again, and walk in the Light of Christ;
To
walk as Christ Jesus walked.
The
Law simply identifies Sin,
But
has no capacity to save anyone from that Sin.
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