7:1Be a king to those who know the lawthat the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
7:2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
7:3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
7:5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.
7:6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7:7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, You shall not covet.
7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
7:9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
7:10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
7:12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
7:16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
7:17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
7:18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
7:19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to dothis I keep on doing.
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
7:21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
7:22 For in my inner being I delight in Gods law;
7:23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
7:25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to Gods law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Facts on Romans chapter 7;
Romans 7 is the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22.
However, at the beginning of Romans 7 he defines a special audience. He speaks first of all to his alh:. 1. qioi, fellow Christians, and furthermore ‘to those who know the Law’ (7: 1), so at this point he is primarily addressing Jewish Christians.
Paul clarifies his statement by saying that he’s talking about the flesh, the sinful nature, not his new nature in Christ. All the good in Paul’s life comes from Christ living in him, rather than originating in Paul.
Freed from Sin and Enslaved to God shows how the believer is free from the Law (OT covenant) and by the flesh is unable to carry out God’s commands.
Closing Prayer; Heavenly Father, thank you for redeeming and delivering us from the requirements of law and placing your Spirit in our hearts to help us be more than we could ever be trying to obey the Law. In Jesus’ name we praise you. Amen.
Prayer of Salvation: Which is how you ask to become a child of Our Heavenly Father. Lord Jesus, I confess my sins and ask for your forgiveness. Please come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. Take complete control of my life and help me to walk in Your footsteps daily by the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord for saving me and I know you will answer my prayers. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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