...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. Without the law sin was dead — Paul very clearly points out the sense of the former passage, for...

...unto death ; for sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Was then that which is good, made death unto me? tiod forbid; but sin, that it might appear sin, working...

...unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working...

...then,— They are not represented to be freed from the law, as it is a rule of moral conduct. No ! " the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good," ver. 12. Believers " consent to the law, that it is good," ver. 16 ; and " with their mind they serve...

...conflict between sin and grace within the human bosom. "Wherefore," says the Apostle in the 12th verse, " the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good ; was then that which is good made death unto me ? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, worketh...

...mentions, by way of inference, the proposition which his reasoning was designed to prove : ' Where toru the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.' 3. By no means. Nay, I had not known sin unless through law .) —As the apostle is speaking of the...

...chiefly on what we may call the lower view of the Law, does not lose sight of the higher. To him also the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good (Rom. vii. 12). He also recognises that the Law is spiritual and Divine (vii. 14). It was the best...

...unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working...

...then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law (Romans 3:31). Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good (Romans 7:12). For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His...

...always do what we want to do (and vice versa) is used by Paul in order to prove that — as he says — the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. No spirit of contrition here! The fact that we recognize our shortcomings shows that we "agree that...