...-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....

...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...

...being dead wherein we were held ; " in the very next verse he comes in with this healing question, '* What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law." Having in the following words insinuated, or rather more than insinuated, the inefficacy of the Jewish...

...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....

...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...

...God. And ye shall keep my statutes and do them : I am the Lord which sanctify you. Bom., vii. 7. 12. What shall we say then, Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment...

...and as it is explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteousness. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid...For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive M'ithout the law, once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. PARAPHRASE. 7 every...

...also told yoft in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD.What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? GOD forbid. Nay,...lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...it is explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteousness. TEXT. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid!...had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. 9 For I was alive without the law, once: but when the commandment came., sin revived,...

...it is explained by our Saviour, in the Gospel, for the attaining of evangelical righteonsness. TEXT. 7 What shall we say then ? is the law sin ? God forbid...not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lnst, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,...