'Desire' in the Bible
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known [for example] about coveting [what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, “You shall not covet.”
Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent).
For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me.
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.
The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and any other commandment are summed up in this statement: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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