Romans 7:1-12

Romans 7:1-12

Paul has firmly established the amazing fact that we have been justified freely, without cause, by God's grace alone and now have complete redemption in Christ Jesus. In the previous chapter he began the transition into the sanctified life of the believer. Knowing that we have been marvelously justified in Christ must impact the way we live for Christ. The sanctified life should be a life of victory for every true follower of Jesus.In our previous chapter Paul showed us that not being under the law but under grace does not give us the license to live as we please. We are not free to live in habitual sin or occasional sin. We have died with Christ to sin. We have risen to newness of life in Christ.We now begin to look at the other side of the coin. We were not justified by keeping the law therefore we cannot be sanctified by keeping the law. We have died to sin; we have died to the law. The victorious Christian life that we have all been called to, must be lived according to grace, not according to the law.
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Chapter 7
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known 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 the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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