The Law and Sin
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, h I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, i "You shall not covet."
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But j sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For k apart from the law sin was dead.
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I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
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And the commandment, l which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
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Therefore m the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
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Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
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For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, n sold under sin.
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For what I am doing, I do not understand. o For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
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If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
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But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
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For I know that p in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
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For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
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Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
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I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
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For I q delight in the law of God according to r the inward man.
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But s I see another law in t my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me u from this body of death?
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v I thank God - through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Cross References
Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Cross References
Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
Deuteronomy 5:21
'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
Acts 20:33
I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
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Romans 4:15
Because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
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1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep My statutes and My jud...
Ezekiel 20:11
"And I gave them My statutes and showed them My...
Ezekiel 20:13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in ...
Ezekiel 20:21
Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against ...
Luke 10:28
And He said to him, "You have answered rightly;...
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness which ...
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministry of death, written and engra...
Galatians 3:12
Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who d...
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Cross References
Psalms 19:8
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:20
So Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And he answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD:
1 Kings 21:25
But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
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Cross References
Romans 7:19
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
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Cross References
Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
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Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.
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2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
Ephesians 3:16
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.
1 Peter 3:4
Rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
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Cross References
Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
James 4:1
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
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Cross References
Romans 6:13
And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
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Cross References
Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed -
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 - 17
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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