Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold unto sin.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13The good, then, unto me, unto death was made? Not so. But sin, that it might be seen what sin is, by the good (law) effected death in me, that sin might be the more condemned by the commandment.

15For what I work, I know not; and not that which I will, I do; but what I hate, that I do.

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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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