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Believers United to Christ |
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Romans 7:1
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Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking
to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long
as he lives? |
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Romans 7:2
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For the married woman is bound by law to her
husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the
law concerning the husband. |
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Romans 7:3
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So then, if while her husband is living she
is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband
dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is
joined to another man. |
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Romans 7:4
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Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to
die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another,
to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
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Romans 7:5
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For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions,
which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear
fruit for death. |
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Romans 7:6
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But now we have been released from the Law,
having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the
Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. |
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Romans 7:7
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What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May
it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through
the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU
SHALL NOT COVET." |
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Romans 7:8
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But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment,
produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. |
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Romans 7:9
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I was once alive apart from the Law; but when
the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; |
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Romans 7:10
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and this commandment, which was to result in
life, proved to result in death for me; |
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Romans 7:11
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for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment,
deceived me and through it killed me. |
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Romans 7:12
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So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment
is holy and righteous and good. |
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Romans 7:13
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Therefore did that which is good become a cause
of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be
shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through
the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. |
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The Conflict of Two Natures |
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Romans 7:14
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For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I
am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. |
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Romans 7:15
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For what I am doing, I do not understand; for
I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. |
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Romans 7:16
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But if I do the very thing I do not want to
do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. |
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Romans 7:17
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So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but
sin which dwells in me. |
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Romans 7:18
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For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that
is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is
not. |
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Romans 7:19
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For the good that I want, I do not do, but I
practice the very evil that I do not want. |
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Romans 7:20
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But if I am doing the very thing I do not want,
I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. |
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Romans 7:21
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I find then the principle that evil is present
in me, the one who wants to do good. |
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Romans 7:22
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For I joyfully concur with the law of God in
the inner man, |
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Romans 7:23
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but I see a different law in the members of
my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the
law of sin which is in my members. |
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Romans 7:24
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Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free
from the body of this death? |
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Romans 7:25
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but
on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. |
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