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Romans 7:6-8
Worldwide English (New Testament)
Romans 7:6-8
Worldwide English (New Testament)
6 But now we have been made free from the law. We died, and so we are no longer slaves to the one who was our master. Now we are slaves to God in our new life. This new life is ruled by the Spirit. We do not work for the old written law.
7 So what shall we say? Shall we say that the law is bad? No! I would not have known what is wrong if there had been no law. The law says, `Do not want to take other people's things.' That is how I know it is wrong to want another person's things.
8 My wrong ways used the law to make me want all kinds of things. When there is no law, the thing within me that wants to do wrong is dead.
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Romans 7:6-8
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Romans 7:6-8
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6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(A) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(B)
The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say, then?(C) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(D) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(E) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[a](F) 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(G) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(H)
Footnotes
- Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
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