Romans 7:14

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

15For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually 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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