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|Romanos 7:1| Brethren, do you not know –for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law– that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
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|Romanos 7:2| A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
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|Romanos 7:3| This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
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|Romanos 7:4| So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of the Messiah, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
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|Romanos 7:5| For whilst we were under the influence of our earthly natures, sinful passions – made sinful by the Law– were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
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|Romanos 7:6| But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
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|Romanos 7:7| What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said,»You shall not covet.«
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|Romanos 7:8| Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.
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|Romanos 7:9| Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
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|Romanos 7:10| and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
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