...One need only read the preceding part of the Verse, to be convinced that this is the true sense : " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in...concupiscence : for without the law, sin was dead." — Compare also those expressions, (Ver. 5.) "The motions of sins, which were by the law ; and Ver....

...dead wherein we were held ; " in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, '* What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law." Having in the following words insinuated, or rather more than insinuated, the inefficacy of the Jewish...

...the Apostle uses the term, ' the law,' in this argument, is indubitably marked in Rom. vii. 7 : ' I K had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet : ' which, being a plain reference to the tenth command of the Decalogue, is ' the...

...is explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteousness. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid !...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteousness. TEXT. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid! Nay,...had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. 9 For I was alive without the law, once: but when the commandment came., sin revived,...

...explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteonsness. TEXT. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid !...not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lnst, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,...

...strongly and justly reasons, it renders our corrupt affections more inflamed and violent by restraint;* " Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet," &c. But let us now complete this argument, by showing that a believer in Christ is...

...strongly and justly reasons, it renders our corrupt affections more inflamed and violent by restraint;* " Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet," &c. But let us now complete this argument, by showing that a believer in Christ is...

...his carnal mind was slain by the divine law, he cordially approved of it as a rule of life. " What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion...

...were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness 01 the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay,...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...