Romans 7:14

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin.

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

In Context

13Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.

15I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let us do him no violence, for he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” So his brothers listened to him;

Genesis 40:15for I was unjustly stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.”

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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