“ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. ”
The remainder of this chapter has been the subject of no small degree of controversy. The question has been whether it describes the state of Paul before his conversion, or afterward. It is not the...
(8) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (8) The law is the cause of this matter because the it requires a heavenly purity, but when men are born, they are bondsla...
Autobiography of the Man under Law. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past...
spiritual. See Romans 1:11 . carnal . Greek. sarkikos, according to the Received Text (App-94), but the Critical Texts read sarkinos (compare 2 Corinthians 3:3 ). under . App-104.
14. For we know that the law, etc. He now begins more closely to compare the law with what man is, that it may be more clearly understood whence the evil of death proceeds. He then sets b...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For, we know that the law is spiritual - This is a general proposition, and probably, in the apostle's autograph, concluded the...
But I am carnal— The Apostle is here demonstrating the insufficiency of the law, in opposition to the Gospel; but if by I he meant himself, or any other person whohad embraced the Gospel, then hi...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For we know - that is, it is a recognized principle. But this manner of speaking is sometimes employed to express, not...
The Inadequacy of the Law to save 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20-21 ; Romans 4:15 ; Romans 5:20 . In this chapter ( Romans 7:7-2...
For we know. — There is no need to argue the question. We Christians all know that the Law is spiritual. It is divinely given and inspired. On the other hand, man, though capable of communion wit...
Chapter 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He...
the Conflict Within Romans 7:14-25 The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been revealed to it as the...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
For we know that the law is spiritual ,.... We who have a spiritual understanding of the law, who have been led into the true nature of it by the Spirit of God, know by experience that that itself i...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Ver. 14. Sold under sin ] But yet ill paid of my slavery, and lusting after liberty.
For we know that the law is spiritual Extending to the spirit of man; forbidding even the sins of the spirit; sins internal, committed merely in men's minds, such as vain thoughts, foolish imaginat...
Change of "Husbands" But a Struggle for Freedom In Romans 7:1-25 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating...
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. A. D. 58. 7 What shall we say then? Is the l...
He goes on to clear the law, and excuse it, giving it another commendation, that it is spiritual; i.e. it requires such obedience as is not only outward, but inward and spiritual; it forbids spiri...
‘For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.' If we consider the passage from Romans 7:14 to Romans 8:4 we discover an interesting fact. It commences with ‘we' and t...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 7:14 .—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.” Romans 7:15 .—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up,...
carnal Compare ( 1 Corinthians 3:1 ); ( 1 Corinthians 3:4 ). "Carnal" meaning "fleshly" is Paul's word for the Adamic nature, and for the believer who "walks," that is, lives, under the pow...
Romans 7:14-25 Dualism in the Life. I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms "flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical sense conferred upon th...
Romans 7:1-3 . 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? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the la...
Romans 7:1 . I speak to them that know the law, with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as lon...
To whom does the passage refer? To the unregenerate.-- It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen a...
EXPOSITION Romans 7:1-45 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that death cancels the claims of human law on a...
The practical effect of this teaching:
1 Corinthians 3:1-3 ; 1 Kings 21:20 ; 1 Kings 21:25 ; 2 Kings 17:17 ; Amos 2:6 ; Deuteronomy 6:5 ; Ephesians 3:8 ; Exodus 21:2-6 ; Exodus 22:3 ; Genesis 37:27 ; Genesis 37:36 ; Genesis 40...
The Inward Conflict Romans 7:7-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a hus...
I am carnal — St. Paul, having compared together the past and present state of believers, that "in the flesh," Romans 7:5 , and that "in the spirit," Romans 7:6 , in answering two objections, (Is...