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Romans 7:7-9
Lexham English Bible
Romans 7:7-9
Lexham English Bible
Knowledge of Sin Comes through the Law
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”[a] 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 And I was alive once, apart from the law, but when[b] the commandment came, sin sprang to life
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- Romans 7:7 A quotation from Exod 20:17; Deut 5:21
- Romans 7:9 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
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