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3 So then aif, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.  
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become adead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bbear fruit to God.  
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law awere at work in our members bto bear fruit to death.  
6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve ain the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.  

Sin’s Advantage in the Law

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, aI would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, b“You shall not covet.”  
8 But asin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For bapart from the law sin was dead.  
9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh—in our unregenerate state, as we came into the world. See on John 3:6 and Romans 8:5-9.

the motions—"passions" (Margin), "affections" (as in Galatians 5:24), or "stirrings."

of sins—that is, "prompting to the commission of sins."

which were by the law—by occasion of the law, which fretted, irritated our inward corruption by its prohibitions. See on Romans 7:7-9.

did work in our members—the members of the body, as the instruments by which these inward stirrings find vent in action, and become facts of the life. See on Romans 6:6.

to bring forth fruit unto death—death in the sense of Romans 6:21. Thus hopeless is all holy fruit before union to Christ.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 7:5:

Romans 7:14
Romans 7:23
Romans 7:24
Romans 8:3-4
1 Corinthians 5:5
1 Corinthians 9:21

 

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