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Romans 7:9

Weymouth NT

Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;

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»All of these,« said the young man, »I have carefully kept. What do I still lack?«

»`All these years,' replied the son, `I have been slaving for you, and I have never at any time disobeyed any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me to enjoy myself with my friends;«

»All of those,« he replied, »I have kept from my youth.«

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

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.

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.

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.

All who are depending upon their own obedience to the Law are under a curse, for it is written, »Cursed is every one who does not remain faithful to all the precepts of the Law, and practise them.«




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