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ROM 7:1
Romans 7:1
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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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ROM 7:2
Romans 7:2
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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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ROM 7:3
Romans 7:3
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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. |
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ROM 7:4
Romans 7:4
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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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ROM 7:5
Romans 7:5
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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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ROM 7:6
Romans 7:6
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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. |
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ROM 7:7
Romans 7:7
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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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ROM 7:8
Romans 7:8
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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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ROM 7:9
Romans 7:9
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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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ROM 7:10
Romans 7:10
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And the commandment, which was ordained to life,
I found to be unto death. |
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ROM 7:11
Romans 7:11
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me. |
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ROM 7:12
Romans 7:12
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and good. |
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ROM 7:13
Romans 7:13
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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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ROM 7:14
Romans 7:14
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I
am carnal, sold under sin. |
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ROM 7:15
Romans 7:15
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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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ROM 7:16
Romans 7:16
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If then I do that which I would not, I consent
unto the law that it is good. |
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ROM 7:17
Romans 7:17
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. |
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ROM 7:18
Romans 7:18
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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. |
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ROM 7:19
Romans 7:19
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For the good that I would I do not: but the
evil which I would not, that I do. |
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ROM 7:20
Romans 7:20
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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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ROM 7:21
Romans 7:21
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good,
evil is present with me. |
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ROM 7:22
Romans 7:22
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man: |
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ROM 7:23
Romans 7:23
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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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ROM 7:24
Romans 7:24
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver
me from the body of this death? |
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ROM 7:25
Romans 7:25
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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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