Romans 7:14

For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13That which is good then, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the command.

15for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:27Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he [is] our brother—our flesh”; and his brothers listen.

Genesis 40:15for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they have put me in the pit [for].”

Exodus 22:3if the sun has risen on him, blood [is] for him, he certainly repays; if he has nothing, then he has been sold for his theft;

Leviticus 13:16Or when the raw flesh turns back, and has been turned to white, then he has come to the priest,

Deuteronomy 6:5And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

1 Kings 21:25surely there has been none like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of YHWH, whom his wife Jezebel has moved,

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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