C.
Bondage in the flesh by the indwelling sin
7:1-25
1.
Two husbands
vv. 1-6
Rom. 7
:1
7:1
Or are you ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the
1law lords it over the man as long as he lives?
Rom. 7
:2
7:2
For the married woman is bound by the
1law to her
2husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the
1law regarding the husband.
Rom. 7
:3
7:3
So then if, while the husband is living, she is joined to
1another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to
1another man.
Rom. 7
:4
7:4
So then, my brothers,
1you also
ahave been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that
1you might be
2joined to
banother, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might
3bear fruit to God.
Rom. 7
:5
7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the passions for sins, which
acted through the law, operated in our members to bear fruit to death.
Rom. 7
:6
7:6
But now we have been
1discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we
2serve in
3newness of
4spirit and not in oldness of letter.
2.
Three laws
vv. 7-25
Rom. 7
:7
7:7
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But
1I did not
aknow sin except through the
2law; for neither did I know coveting, except the law had said,
3b"You shall not covet.''
Rom. 7
:8
7:8
But 1sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind; for without the law sin is dead.
Rom. 7
:9
7:9
And I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Rom. 7
:10
7:10
And the commandment, which was unto life, this very
commandment was found to me to be unto
1death.
Rom. 7
:11
7:11
For sin, seizing the opportunity
1through the commandment,
adeceived me and
bthrough it killed
me.
Rom. 7
:12
7:12
So then the law is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.
Rom. 7
:13
7:13
Did then that which is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin
did, that it might
1be shown to be sin by working out death in me through that which is good, that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
Rom. 7
:14
7:14
For we
1know that the law is
2spiritual; but I am
3fleshy, sold under sin.
Rom. 7
:15
7:15
For what I work out, I
1do not acknowledge; for what I will, this I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.
Rom. 7
:16
7:16
But if what I do not will, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Rom. 7
:17
7:17
Now then
it is ano longer I
that work it out but sin that
1dwells in me.
Rom. 7
:18
7:18
For I
1know that in me, that is, in my
2flesh,
3nothing good dwells; for
4to will is present with me, but to work out the good is not.
Rom. 7
:19
7:19
For I do not do the good which I will; but the evil which I do not will, this I practice.
Rom. 7
:20
7:20
But if what I do not will, this I do,
it is ano longer I
that work it out but sin that dwells in me.
Rom. 7
:21
7:21
I find then
1the law with me who wills to do the good, that is, the
2evil is present with me.
Rom. 7
:22
7:22
For I delight in the
1law of God according to the inner man,
Rom. 7
:23
7:23
But I see a different
1law in my members,
2warring against the law of my mind and making me a
3captive to the
alaw of sin which is in my members.
Rom. 7
:24
7:24
1Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from
2the body of
3this death?
Rom. 7
:25
7:25
aThanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then
1with the mind I myself
2serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the
3law of sin.
