Romans 7:14

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

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

15I do not understand that which I do: for I do not do what I want to do; but what I hate is the very thing 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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