These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Romans 7
Brit Hadashah 24 verses
- 1 Brethren, do you not —for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law—that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
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A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
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- 3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband’s life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
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So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of , that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to .
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Romans 8:2 Romans 7:6 Colossians 2:14 Ephesians 2:15 Galatians 5:18 Romans 6:22 Colossians 1:22 John 15:8 Galatians 5:22-23 Hebrews 10:10 Colossians 1:6 John 3:29 Romans 6:14 Galatians 3:13 1 Corinthians 10:16 Revelation 19:7 2 Corinthians 11:2 Ephesians 5:23-27 Philippians 1:11 Hosea 2:19-20 Psalm 45:10-16 Colossians 2:20 John 6:51 Romans 6:2 Revelation 21:9 Colossians 1:10 Matthew 26:26 Galatians 2:19-20 Philippians 4:17 1 Peter 2:24 Isaiah 54:5 Isaiah 62:5 -
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For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions—made sinful by the Law—were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
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Romans 6:13 Romans 6:21 Galatians 5:19-21 James 4:1 Matthew 15:19 James 2:9-10 Romans 6:23 Romans 3:20 Ephesians 2:3 Romans 7:23 Romans 5:20 Galatians 5:24 Romans 6:19 Romans 4:15 Romans 1:26 1 John 3:4 Ephesians 2:11 Colossians 3:5 Romans 7:7-13 Galatians 5:16-17 2 Corinthians 3:6-9 Galatians 3:10 John 3:6 Titus 3:3 1 Corinthians 15:56 James 1:15 Romans 8:8-9 -
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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.
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Romans 6:4 Romans 7:4 2 Corinthians 3:6 Romans 6:2 Galatians 4:4-5 2 Corinthians 5:17 Galatians 2:19-20 Romans 7:1 Romans 2:27-29 Philippians 3:3 Romans 6:22 Ezekiel 36:26 Galatians 3:23-25 Romans 1:9 Romans 12:2 Colossians 3:10 Galatians 3:13 Galatians 6:15 Romans 6:14-15 Romans 6:19 Ezekiel 11:19 Romans 6:11 -
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What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, “Thou shalt not covet.”
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Romans 3:20 Romans 7:8 Deuteronomy 5:21 Exodus 20:17 Romans 3:5 Romans 4:15 Romans 13:9 1 Corinthians 15:56 Luke 12:15 Romans 7:11 Romans 7:13 Joshua 7:21 Romans 7:5 1 John 2:15-16 Romans 4:1 Genesis 3:6 Colossians 3:5 2 Samuel 11:2 Matthew 5:28 Psalm 19:7-12 Ephesians 5:3 Romans 6:15 Psalm 119:96 Micah 2:2 1 Kings 21:1-4 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Acts 20:33 -
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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.
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- 9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
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and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
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- 11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
- 12 So that the Law itself is , and the Commandment is , just and good.
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Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.
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For we that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual—the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
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2 Kings 17:17 1 Kings 21:25 1 Kings 21:20 Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 52:3 Job 42:6 Deuteronomy 6:5 Luke 7:6 Romans 7:18 Romans 7:22-24 Proverbs 30:5 Matthew 16:23 Leviticus 19:18 Matthew 5:22 Ephesians 3:8 Amos 2:6 Genesis 40:15 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 Genesis 37:36 Isaiah 6:5 Genesis 37:27 Exodus 21:2-6 Isaiah 64:5-6 Matthew 5:28 Luke 18:11-14 Matthew 18:25 Exodus 22:3 Psalm 119:25 Psalm 51:6 Luke 5:8 Matthew 22:37-40 Proverbs 30:2 Hebrews 4:12 -
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For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
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Galatians 5:17 2 Timothy 2:19 Philippians 3:12-14 Romans 14:22 1 John 1:7-8 Ecclesiastes 7:20 Hebrews 1:9 Nahum 1:7 Jude 1:23 Romans 12:9 James 3:2 Psalm 119:1-6 Amos 5:15 Psalm 36:4 Psalm 119:32 Psalm 119:113 Psalm 119:104 Psalm 119:128 Proverbs 8:13 Psalm 119:40 Psalm 119:163 1 Kings 8:46 Psalm 19:12 Romans 7:19-20 Psalm 97:10 Romans 7:16 Proverbs 13:5 Psalm 101:3 Psalm 65:3 Psalm 1:6 Luke 11:48 -
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But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
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and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
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For I that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
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John 3:6 Romans 7:25 Genesis 6:5 Psalm 51:5 Genesis 8:21 Job 14:4 Titus 3:3 Psalm 119:115-117 Mark 7:21-23 Matthew 15:19 Job 15:14-16 Romans 7:15 Romans 7:5 Psalm 119:32 Galatians 5:19-21 Psalm 119:5 Philippians 2:13 Romans 7:19 Philippians 3:12 Galatians 5:24 Psalm 119:176 Ephesians 2:1-5 1 Peter 4:2 Romans 8:3-13 Psalm 119:40 Galatians 5:17 Luke 11:13 Psalm 119:173 Romans 13:14 Job 25:4 Isaiah 64:6 -
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For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
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But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.
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- 21 I find therefore the of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.
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For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of ;
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Psalm 1:2 Ephesians 3:16 2 Corinthians 4:16 Psalm 40:8 1 Peter 3:4 Psalm 119:35 Psalm 119:47-48 Romans 8:7 Hebrews 8:10 Isaiah 51:7 Job 23:12 Psalm 19:8-10 Psalm 119:174 Psalm 119:127 Psalm 119:113 Psalm 119:97-104 Psalm 119:111 John 4:34 Romans 2:29 Psalm 119:92 Colossians 3:9 Psalm 119:167 Psalm 119:16 Psalm 119:72 Psalm 119:24 - 23 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body—the Law of sin.
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Thanks be to through the our Lord!)
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