Romans 8:14-17 Part 2 of 4

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

 

The Spirit you received 

John 20:22  And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."

John 7:39  By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. 

does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again 

2 Timothy 1:7  For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

Hebrews 2:14-15  Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

and by him we cry, "Abba, Father." 

Mark 14:36  "Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."

Galatians 4:6  Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children 

2 Corinthians 1:21-22  Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Ephesians 1:13-14  And you also were included in Christ, when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.

 

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Romans 8:14-17 Part 1 of 4

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

 

For those who are led by the Spirit of God

Galatians 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 

Galatians 5:16  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

 

are the children of God 

Romans 8:19  For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Malachi 3:17  "On the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him."

Matthew 5:9  "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

John 1:12  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--...

Galatians 3:26  So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, ... 

Galatians 4:4-5  But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

Ephesians 1:5  ... he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--...

Revelation 21:7  "Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children."

 

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Romans 8:12-13

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation--but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

 

we have an obligation--but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it

Romans 8:4  For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Galatians 5:13  You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather serve one another humbly in love.

Galatians 5:16  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 6:8  Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Romans 6:6  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that you should no longer be slaves to sin--...

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die 

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body 

Romans 6:1-2  What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

you will live 

Romans 8:6  The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Galatians 6:7-8  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

 

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Romans 8:9-11 Part 2 of 2

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

 

But if Christ is in you

Exodus 29:45  "Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God."

John 14:20  "On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."

John 14:23  Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them."

2 Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?

Galatians 2:20  I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  

Ephesians 3:16-17a  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

Colossians 1:27  To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  

Revelation 3:20  "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me."

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you 

Acts 2:24  "But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him."

he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you 

John 5:21  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it."

Romans 6:5  For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

 

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Romans 8:9-11 Part 1 of 2

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

 

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 

Galatians 5:16-17  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you 

1 Corinthians 6:19  Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

2 Timothy 1:14  Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you--guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ 

John 14:16-17  "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever--the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you."

Acts 16:7  When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.

1 John 4:13  This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

 

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Romans 8:5-8 Part 2 of 2

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

 

The mind governed by the flesh is death

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace 

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Galatians 6:8  Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God 

James 4:4  You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God 

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:16-17  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

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Romans 8:5-8 Part 1 of 2

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

 

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires

Galatians 5:19-21  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.  

but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires 

Galatians 5:22-25  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

 

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Romans 8:3-4 Part 2 of 2

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

to be a sin offering 

Hebrews 2:14-15  Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

Hebrews 2:17  For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.

And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us 

Romans 2:26  So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law's requirements, will they not be regarded as though the were circumcised?

who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit 

Galatians 5:16  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatians 5:25  Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Romans 8:2  ... because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:5-6  Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:9  You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.

Romans 8:14  For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old is gone, the new is here!

 

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Romans 8:3-4 Part 1 of 2

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

For what the law was powerless to do

Hebrews 7:18-19  The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 10:1-4  The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

 

because it was weakened by the flesh 

Romans 7:18-19  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh 

Philippians 2:7  ... rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

John 1:14  The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Romans 8:1-2 Part 3 of 3

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

 

from the law of sin and death

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 7:4  So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 

Romans 7:6  But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Galatians 3:23-25  Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

Galatians 5:1  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

 

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Romans 8:1-2 Part 2 of 3

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

 

because through Christ Jesus

Romans 7:25a  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

 

the law of the Spirit who gives life 

1 Corinthians 15:45  So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; (Genesis 2:7) the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. (Christ, John 5:26)

 

has set you free 

John 8:31-32  To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

John 8:36  "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

Romans 6:18  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:22  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness and the result is eternal life.

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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Romans 8:1-2 Part 1 of 3

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

 

Therefore, there is now no condemnation

Romans 8:34  Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

 

for those who are in Christ Jesus 

Romans 8:38-39  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

1 Corinthians 1:30  It is because of him (God) that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Galatians 5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Ephesians 1:13-14  And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.

(parentheses are mine)

 

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Romans 7:24-25

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

 

Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

Romans 6:6-7  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Romans 8:1-2  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

 

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! 

2 Corinthians 2:14-16  But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? 

Romans 6:17  But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

1 Corinthians 15:57  But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:15  Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law 

Romans 6:22  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

1 Peter 2:16  Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God's slaves.

but in my sinful nature, a slave to the law of sin 

Romans 7:23  ... but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.

 

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Romans 7:21-23

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work in me.

 

So I find this law at work

Romans 7:25  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. 

For in my inner being 

Ephesians 3:16-17a  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

I delight in God's law 

Psalm 1:1-2  Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Psalm 40:8  I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.

but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind 

Galatians 5:17  For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other; so that you are not to do whatever you want.

James 4:1  What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

1 Peter 2:11  Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.

and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work in me 

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

 

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Romans 7:18-20

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

 

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, my sinful nature 

Romans 7:25  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. 

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Romans 6:6  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--...

Romans 7:5  For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 8:12-13  Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation--but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing 

Romans 7:15  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

but it is sin living in me that does it 

Romans 7:17  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

 

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Romans 7:14-17

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

 

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual 

1 Corinthians 3:1  Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly--mere infants in Christ.

 

sold 

1 Kings 21:20  Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!"  "I have found you," he answered, "because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD." 

1 Kings 21:24-25  (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)

2 Kings 17:17  They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.

as a slave to sin 

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do 

Romans 7:19  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing.

Galatians 5:17  For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good 

Romans 7:12  So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me 

Romans 7:20  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

 

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Romans 7:12-13 Part 2 of 2

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

 

in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good 

Romans 7:18-20  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 

to bring about my death 

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:21  What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

Romans 1:32  Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 5:12  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

Romans 7:5  For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 8:6  The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Galatians 6:7-8  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

 

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Romans 7:12-13 Part 1 of 2

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

 

the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good

Romans 7:7  What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21)

Romans 7:14-16  We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what to do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 

Romans 8:3-4  For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Galatians 3:21  Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

1 Timothy 1:8  We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

Romans 4:15  For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

1 Corinthians 15:56  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

2 Corinthians 3:7-8  Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

Galatians 3:10  For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything in the book of the Law." (Deuteronomy 27:26)

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Romans 7:9-11 Part 2 of 2

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

 

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death

Genesis 3:11-13  And he (the LORD God) said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? The man said, "The woman you put here with me--she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." 

2 Corinthians 11:3-4  But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

1 Timothy 2:14  And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

 

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Romans 7:9-11 Part 1 of 2

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

 

the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death 

Leviticus 18:5  " 'Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.' "

Luke 10:25-28  On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus, "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"  "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" He answered, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; (Deuteronomy 6:5) and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' "(Leviticus 19:18)  "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live." 

Romans 10:5  Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: "The person who does these things will live by them." (Leviticus 18:5)

Galatians 3:12  The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, "The person who does these things will live by them." (Leviticus 18:5) 

Deuteronomy 4:1  Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow these so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:24  "The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today."

Nehemiah 9:29  "You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, 'The person who obeys them will live by them.' Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen."

Proverbs 19:16  Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.

Ezekiel 20:11  " 'I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.' "

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Romans 7:7-8

What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

 

What shall we say, then? 

Romans 8:31  What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

 

Is the law sinful? Certainly not! 

Romans 7:12-13  So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 

Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law 

Romans 4:14-15  For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, because the law brings wrath. 

Romans 3:20  Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Romans 5:13  To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone's account where there is no law.

You shall not covet 

Exodus 20:17  "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Deuteronomy 5:21  "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment 

Romans 7:11  For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

For apart from the law, sin was dead 

Romans 4:15b  And when there is no law there is no transgression.

 

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Romans 7:5-6

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

 

For when we were in the realm of the flesh 

Galatians 5:24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:16-17  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

Galatians 6:8  Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Romans 6:6  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--...

Romans 8:8-9  Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 

the sinful passions aroused by the law 

Romans 7:7  What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21)

 

were at work in us 

Romans 6:13  Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 

So that we bore fruit for death 

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law 

Romans 7:4   So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code 

Romans 2:29  No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person's praise is not from other people, but from God.

2 Corinthians 3:6  He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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