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Verse Romans 7:7. _IS THE LAW SIN?_] The apostle had said, Romans
7:6: _The motions of sins, which were by the law, did bring forth
fruit_ _unto death_; and now he anticipates an objection, "Is
there...
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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? - The objection which is here urged is one
that would very naturally rise, and which we may suppose would be
urged with no slight indignation. The Jew would ask, “Are we then t...
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CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_
2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .)
3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .)
4. The Experienc...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to
the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience.
That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far
from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the
law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
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The true function of the Divine Law: to detect and condemn sin, both
before and after Justification
7. _What shall we say then?_ Same words as Romans 6:1. Here opens a
new and important section, inclu...
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Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in
each man, as the law could not do.
(7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of
sin, as, for instance, co...
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ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ἘΡΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ; Yet another suggestion stated, to
be put aside. If under law we are slaves to sin, under grace to
righteousness, it might be supposed that the law itself is sin: but as
the law is a...
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ΈΡΟΫ́ΜΕΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004)
говорить,
ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ _aor._ opt. _med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096)
используется в обороте, отрицающем
ложный вывод (_см._ Romans 3:4).
ΈΓΝΩΝ _aor. ind. act. от...
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DISCOURSE: 1852
THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW
Romans 7:7. _What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay,
I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except
the law had sai...
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IS THE LAW SIN?— _Unrighteousness?—_as giving any allowance, or
contributing any thing to sin. See Romans 7:12. The skill which St.
Paul uses in dexterously avoiding, as much as possible, the giving
o...
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TEXT
Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not
known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet.
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? See t...
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Conciliation-Individual
12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us
power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us
into disfavor because of the super...
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7:7 law (h-8) Or 'the, law [is] sin.' lust; (i-40) Exodus 20:17 ....
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LUST] RV 'coveting.' St. Paul instances the most searching and
comprehensive commandment of the second table....
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THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE
1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an
earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this
chapter ...
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PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ROMANS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 7
FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25
1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6
V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? — The Apostle had spoken in a manner
disparaging to the Law, and which might well give offence to some of
his readers. It was necessary to correct this. And so now he proceeds...
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CHAPTER 15
JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE
Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1
AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a
moment, to resume. He has brought...
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CHAPTER 16
THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Romans 7:7
THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin,
propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
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The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law
and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans
6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν
ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
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THE LAW MAKES SIN KNOWN
Romans 7:1
To make his meaning clear the Apostle now enters upon a parable drawn
from domestic life. He says that we are married to the Law as our
first husband, and seek, thr...
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Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure
that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility.
Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
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(4) What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known (o) lust, except
the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
(4) An objection: What...
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_Is the law (of Moses) sin? God forbid. The apostle declares, that the
law itself was far from being sinful; on the contrary, that it was
good, spiritual, holy: but, saith he, I should not know concup...
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SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN.
Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.)
The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having
involved man in death (Romans 7...
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This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in
identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the
apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
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“ _What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be! Nay, I did
not learn to know sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, if
the law had not said, Thou shalt not covet._ ”
Some commentator...
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
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7._What then shall we say? _Since it has been said that we must be
freed from the law, in order that we may serve God in newness of
spirit, it seemed as though this evil belonged to the law, — that it...
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We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ
with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early
part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN?.... The apostle having said,
that "the motions of sins were by the law", Romans 7:5, meets with an
objection, or rather an ill natured cavil, "is the law sin?...
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What shall we say then? _Is_ the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Ver. 7. _I had not known lust_...
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_What shall we say then?_ This, to the beginning of the next chapter,
is a kind of digression, wherein the apostle, in order to show, in the
most lively manner, the weakness and inefficacy of the law,...
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IS THE LAW SIN? is the law answerable for sin because no one can be
justified by it, and because it is made the occasion of increasing the
wickedness of those who break it? By no means.
NAY; on the co...
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THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT.
The object of the Law:...
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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID! NAY, I HAD NOT
KNOWN SIN BUT BY THE LAW; FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT THE LAW HAD
SAID, THOU SHALT NOT COVET....
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CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience
recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness
- hating evil and...
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7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD?
Is it a blessing or a curse?
What did the law do?
1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7
2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8
3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9
4....
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LUST:
Or, concupiscence...
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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID. HOWBEIT,. HAD NOT
KNOWN SIN, EXCEPT THROUGH THE LAW: FOR. HAD NOT KNOWN COVETING, EXCEPT
THE LAW HAD SAID, THOU SHALT NOT COVET: "WHAT SHALL WE SAY...
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7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is
necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by
trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
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IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID: here is another anticipation of an
objection, which might arise from what the apostle had said, ROMANS
7:5, that sin was powerful in us by the law. Some might object and
sa...
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not
known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting,
except the law had said [Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21], T_ hou...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Sed peccatum non cognovi, nisi per legem. Concupiscentiam enim non
cognovissem, nisi lex diceret: Non concupisces."[125]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
Bu...
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Romans 7:7 What G5101 say G2046 (G5692) then G3767 law G3551 sin G266
not G3361 G1096 (G5
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‘What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not.'
The vital question is put. If the Law has to be treated in the same
way as the principle of sin within, by our being put to death to it
(Romans...
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PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW
(7:7-13).
Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law
does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
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3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW
LIFE IN THE SPIRIT.
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is
affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
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Romans 7:7. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? Comp. chap. Romans 3:5. The
Apostle proposes to consider the wrong inference which arises in many
minds, that because the law works as described in Romans 7:5-6, it...
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2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_.
The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong
inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans
7:7), but...
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IS THE LAW SIN?
(ο νομος αμαρτια?). A pertinent query in view of what he
had said. Some people today oppose all inhibitions and prohibitions
because they stimulate violations. That is half-baked th...
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SIN
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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Romans 7:7
A Chapter in Saul's Early Life.
I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything
essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God
itself. On the contrary,...
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Romans 7:7
I. These are searching words, and direct our thoughts to the hidden
light in pursuance of the design of explaining and enforcing the plan
of man's justification in the gospel through the me...
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This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to
conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly
and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
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Romans 7:1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the
law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
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CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature.
Impossibility of victory through the law.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
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Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more
fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law,
that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
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THAT THE LAW ITSELF IS SINFUL? In Romans 7:5 Paul said that the Law
_stirred up sinful desires._ OF COURSE NOT! Paul strongly denies that
the Law itself was sinful. The _restraint_ of law made him awa...
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_What shall we say then?_
Is the law sin? God forbid.
THE LAW
I. Its nature--
1. Moral.
2. Spiritual.
3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted.
II. Its use--
1. To describe the natu...
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TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER?
_To the unregenerate.--_
It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified
man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and
t...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin
and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains
that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar
nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and
thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
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EXPOSITION
ROMANS 7:1
Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the
baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels
the claims of human law on a person (cf....
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Romans chapter 7.
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,)
(Romans 7:1)
In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has
dominion over a man as long as h...
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1 Corinthians 15:56; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Kings 21:1;...
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I had not known [ο υ κ ε γ ν ω ν]. Rev., correctly, I did not
know. See on John 2:24. The I refers to Paul himself. He speaks in the
first person, declaring concerning himself what is meant to apply t...
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THE INWARD CONFLICT
Romans 7:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a
woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a
husband, is...
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What shall we say then — This is a kind of a digression, to the
beginning of the next chapter, wherein the apostle, in order to show
in the most lively manner the weakness and inefficacy of the law,
c...
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Observe here, 1. The objection (which the apostle answers) that some
were ready to make against the holiness of the law. He had affirmed at
that THE MOTIONS OF SIN WERE STIRRED UP BY THE LAW. Romans 7...