Romans 7 5-10

  02/05 ~ From New Testament Letters

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        Paul’s Letter To The Romans

5 - For while we were living in the lower nature/carnality, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in us bearing fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law - having died to that which held us captive - so that we now serve in the new way of the Spirit. And not in the old way of the written code. {Outward compliance doesn’t work. Genuine inward change and newness - worked by God who iS life, is what works. Submission, fully yielded. After all, it’s He who has our highest blueprint!}

     7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known what is sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet, if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8 But {tricky} sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness! {Like forbidden fruit, seduces, entices and excites.} Otherwise it lies dormant. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life, proved to be death to me.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 7:11-8:2

By Necessity Paraphrased

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