Romans 7
Lutheran reading notes
In Romans chapter 7, the message of the gospel develops the theme of the gospel of justification and righteousness by faith. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Romans 7:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to {her} husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of {her} husband.
Romans 7:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So then if, while {her} husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Romans 7:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, {even} to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. {motions: Gr. passions}
Romans 7:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}
Romans 7:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {lust: or, concupiscence}
Romans 7:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.
Romans 7:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.
Romans 7:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.
Romans 7:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Romans 7:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {allow: Gr. know}
Romans 7:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that {it is} good.
Romans 7:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.
Romans 7:18 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans 7:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:21 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:22 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:23 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}
Romans 7:24 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:25 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.