Romans 7:12

Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and just, and good.

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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

In Context

11For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

13Then did that which is good bring death to me? By no means. But sin, that it might appear to be sin, worked death in me by that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

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Cross References

Romans 3:31Do we then make the law void through faith? Not at all: rather, we establish the law.

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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