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Romans 7:14

We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to 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

13Now would something that is good kill me? Of course not! But sin shows itself to be sin by using good to cause my death. So by means of the commandment, it's revealed how evil sin really is.

15I really don't understand what I'm doing. I do the things I don't want to do, and what I hate doing, that's what I do!

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Cross References

Genesis 37:27Instead, why don't we sell him to these Ishmaelites? We don't have to kill him. After all he's our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.

Genesis 40:15I was cruelly kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and now I'm here in this pit even though I've done nothing wrong.”

Exodus 22:3But if it happens during daylight, then someone is guilty of murder. A thief must pay everything back that's stolen. If he doesn't have anything, then he must be sold to pay for what was stolen.

Leviticus 13:16But if the open wound heals and becomes white, the person must go back to the priest.

Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.

1 Kings 21:25(No one else was so bad as Ahab, who sold himself to do what is evil in the Lord's sight, because his wife Jezebel encouraged him.

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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