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  • Romans 7:7-12

    The function of the Law

    7 So what are we going to say? That the Law is sin? Absolutely not! But I wouldn’t have known sin except through the Law. I wouldn’t have known the desire for what others have if the Law had not said, Don’t desire to take what others have. 8 But sin seized the opportunity and used this commandment to produce all kinds of desires in me. Sin is dead without the Law. 9 I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, 10 and I died. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death. 11 Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me. 12 So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

  • Romans 7:17-21

    17 But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me. 18 I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. 19 I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.

    21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

  • Romans 8:1

    Set free by the Spirit

    8 So now there isn’t any condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • Romans 8:3-4

    3 God has done what was impossible for the Law, since it was weak because of selfishness. God condemned sin in the body by sending his own Son to deal with sin in the same body as humans, who are controlled by sin. 4 He did this so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Now the way we live is based on the Spirit, not based on selfishness.

  • Romans 8:32-33

    32 He didn’t spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. Won’t he also freely give us all things with him?

    33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect people? It is God who acquits them.

  • Romans 8:39

    39 or height or depth, or any other thing that is created.