Readings for Lent and Easter
Not That The Law Is At Fault For My Sin
7 Therefore, what shall we say? Is the Law sin[a]? May it never be! On-the-contrary, I would not have known[b] sin except through the Law.
Sin Used The Law To Produce Sin In Me
For indeed I would not have known[c] coveting[d] if the Law were not saying [in Ex 20:17], “You shall not covet”. 8 But sin, having taken[e] an opportunity[f] through the commandment, produced[g] every[h] [kind of ] coveting in me. For apart-from[i] the Law, sin is dead[j].
And Sin Used The Law To Kill Me
9 And I was once[k] alive apart from the Law. But the commandment having come, sin became-alive[l] 10 and I died. And the commandment for[m] life— this was found in me to be for[n] death. 11 For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived[o] me, and through it, killed me.
So The Law Is Good
12 So-then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Not That The Law Killed Me. Sin Is To Blame For My Death
13 Therefore did the good thing become death[p] for me? May it never be! On the contrary, it was sin, in order that it might become-visible as sin while producing death in me through the good thing, in order that sin might become extremely[q] sinful through the commandment.
I Agree The Law Is Good, But The Sin In Me Produces Behavior I Hate
14 For[r] we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am made-of-flesh[s], having been sold under sin.
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