 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...the heart, and which, by restraining them, makes them appear more sinful, and grow more outrageous. " But sin taking " occasion by the commandment, wrought...concupiscence : for without the law sin " was dead," although it be in us, yet it is not perceived, until it be held before the holy spiritual law of God,... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1821 - 436 pages
...-For such is the perverseness of sin, that restraint increases its rage. Thus the apostle observes, " Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in...concupiscence ; for without the law sin was dead." There are some who seem to rush on through forbidden wickedness, the rather because it is forbidden.... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...Why go ye about to kill me? Rom. viii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the late sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Rom. iii. 27. Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works ? Nay f but by the law... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1822 - 280 pages
...of sin comes by that law, which forbids all irregular desires, and every unsanctified affection. ' I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.'f Hence it is plain to a demonstration, that all the deeds and duties of that law by which is... | |
 | Thomas Young - 1822 - 348 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1842 - 1128 pages
...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... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1822 - 48 pages
...as a creature ; but can he know his relations, as a sinner ? " By the law is the knowledge of sin ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet." The commandment is so " exceeding broad," as to bring under its condemning sentence the sinful desires... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...12—14. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? GoJ forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the taw : for I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 146 pages
...things shall not inherit the kingdom of Gou.What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? GOD forbid. Nay, 1 had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not known...concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For 1 was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 476 pages
...attaining of evangelical righteousness. TEXT. 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...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... | |
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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. 
