Romans 7:7

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Romans 7:7

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Summary

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.

What

Romans 3:5

Romans 4:1

Romans 6:15

Is the law

Romans 7:8

1 Corinthians 15:56

I had

Lust

Romans 7:8

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Thou shalt

General references

Deuteronomy 5:21

Bible References

What

But if our unrighteousness

demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Is the law

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

I had

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for

through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

The law of the Lord is

perfect, restoring the soul;

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Lust

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

not in

lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Thou shalt

For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They

rob a man and his house,

A man and his inheritance.

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”

I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.