Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

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In The King James Version

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

In Context

13Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.

15For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:27It is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites, and then our hands will not be defiled. For he is our brother and our flesh.” His brothers agreed to his words.

Genesis 40:15For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here, innocently, I was cast into the pit.”

Exodus 22:3But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.

Leviticus 13:16And if again it will have turned into whiteness, and will have covered the entire man,

Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

1 Kings 21:25And so, there was no other person similar to Ahab, who was sold so that he did evil in the sight of the Lord. For his wife, Jezebel, urged him on.

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 →

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