Romans 7 11 - 8 2

  02/06 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

         Paul’s Letter To The Romans

11 - For sin, seizing opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

      13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become known as sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I don’t understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. {Like when a person tries to diet?} 16 Now if I do what I don’t want, I am still agreeing with the law, that it’s good. 17 So now it’s no longer I who do it, but the sin (hamartia - missing the mark/imperfection) that dwells in me.18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For my spirit is willing, but the doing of the good escapes me. 20 Now if I do what I don’t want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

     21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in me another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin that dwells in me. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I am under the law of sin. {God is Life and “is Perfect” so imperfect is this slow gehenna crucible, entropy - which does not quit, cannot reverse. BUT! No option to stray in Eden, and creation would have to be an ant farm.. So the remedy was built in.. Once strong enough to convince every psyche and appease every conscience. John 5:22 says “God judges no one” so he is not an angry God demanding a blood appeasement. His wrath being cause and effect and consequences. We can know that by the bowls - final effects of mankind’s doings - for they are called his wrath, and they're quite obviously the armageddon battle which chain reaction will be generally global, for the “Earth will shake to and fro” Isaiah 24:20.. when the “seven thunders utter their voice” Rev.10:4. (Yes I counted them. But Ps.91,46,23, Rev.7:16,17) The siren call to armageddon is division.. And the three winds, trends, spirits of Rev.16:13. But those three are another study. Though I just learned something new about them.. Which hopefully I will remember what it was.}

     8:1 - There is therefore now no condemnation [katakrima - condemnation, judgment] for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For “the law of the Spirit of life” has set us free, in Christ Jesus, from the law of sin and death. {The Law of Life in Jesus ..and Jesus in us.. leading.. trumps the law of imperfection and entropy which is (unavoidably) death.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; facts, cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 8:3-10

My own studies. Verses paraphrased. What we pursue is what we conform to?