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A married woman, for instance, is bound by law to her husband while he lives; if she is widowed, she is quit of her husband’s claim on her; (Romans 7, 2)
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)
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)
the sense of sin, with the law’s ban for its foothold, caught me unawares, and by that means killed me. (Romans 7, 11)
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)
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)
Nothing else than the grace of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. If I am left to myself, my conscience is at God’s disposition, but my natural powers are at the disposition of sin.✻ (Romans 7, 25)
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)
