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Sin offers death, for wages; God offers us eternal life as a free gift, through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6, 23)
You must surely be aware, brethren (I am speaking to men who have some knowledge of law) that legal claims are only binding on a man so long as he is alive. (Romans 7, 1)
she will be held an adulteress if she gives herself to another man during her husband’s lifetime, but once he is dead she is quit of his claim, and can give herself to another man without adultery. (Romans 7, 3)
Well, brethren, you too have undergone death, as far as the law is concerned, in the person of Christ crucified,✻ so that you now belong to another, to him who rose from the dead. We yield increase to God, (Romans 7, 4)
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)
Now we are quit of the claim which death had on us, so that we can do service in a new manner, according to the spirit, not according to the letter as of old.✻ (Romans 7, 6)
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)
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)
A good thing, and did it prove death to me? God forbid we should say that. No, it was sin that produced death in me, using this good thing to make itself appear as sin indeed, sin made more sinful than ever by the ban imposed on it. (Romans 7, 13)
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)
Of this I am certain, that no principle of good dwells in me, that is, in my natural self; praiseworthy intentions are always ready to hand, but I cannot find my way to the performance of them; (Romans 7, 18)
