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whereas, when we were merely our natural selves, the sinful passions to which the law bound us worked on our natural powers, so as to yield increase only to death. (Romans 7, 5)
Does this mean that law and guilt are the same thing? God forbid we should say that. But it was only the law that gave me my knowledge of sin; I should not even have known concupiscence for what it is, if the law had not told me, Thou shalt not covet. (Romans 7, 7)
But the sense of sin, with the law’s ban for its foothold, produced in me every sort of concupiscence. Without the law, the sense of sin is a dead thing. (Romans 7, 8)
At first, without the law, I was alive; then, when the law came with its ban, the sense of sin found new life, (Romans 7, 9)
the sense of sin, with the law’s ban for its foothold, caught me unawares, and by that means killed me. (Romans 7, 11)
The law, to be sure, is something holy; the ban is holy, and right, and good. (Romans 7, 12)
The law, as we know, is something spiritual; I am a thing of flesh and blood, sold into the slavery of sin. (Romans 7, 14)
Why then, if what I do is something I have no wish to do, I thereby admit that the law is worthy of all honour; (Romans 7, 16)
This, then, is what I find about the law, that evil is close at my side, when my will is to do what is praiseworthy.✻ (Romans 7, 21)
There was something the law could not do, because flesh and blood could not lend it the power; and this God has done, by sending us his own Son, in the fashion of our guilty nature, to make amends for our guilt. He has signed the death-warrant of sin in our nature, (Romans 8, 3)
so that we should be fully quit of the law’s claim, we, who follow the ways of the spirit, not the ways of flesh and blood. (Romans 8, 4)
That is because natural wisdom is at enmity with God, not submitting itself to his law; it is impossible that it should. (Romans 8, 7)
