Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
In Context
15For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.
Cross References
Genesis 37:27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him.
Genesis 40:15For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. [A thief] shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Leviticus 13:16Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.
Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
1 Kings 21:25(But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 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. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →