Romans 7:14

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

Revised Version 1895

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 is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shewn to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

15For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him.

Genesis 40:15for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him: he should make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 13:16Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, then he shall come unto the priest,

Deuteronomy 6:5and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

1 Kings 21:25(But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

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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