Trouvé 2084 Résultats pour: Sin
Sin offers death, for wages; God offers us eternal life as a free gift, through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6, 23)
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)
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)
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)
meanwhile, my action does not come from me, but from the sinful principle that dwells in me. (Romans 7, 17)
And if what I do is something I have not the will to do, it cannot be I that bring it about, it must be the sinful principle that dwells in me. (Romans 7, 20)
but I observe another disposition in my lower self, which raises war against the disposition of my conscience, and so I am handed over as a captive to that disposition towards sin which my lower self contains. (Romans 7, 23)
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)
