Wednesday Night Bible Read - Romans 7

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And tonight we're coming from Romans chapterseven. Romans chapter seven. If you

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Lord, just listen, do younot know, brothers and sisters,
For I am speaking to those whoknow the law that the law has authority
over someone only as long as thatperson lives. For example, by law,

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a married woman is bound to herhusband as long as he is alive,
but if her husband dies, sheis released from the law that binds
her to him. So then ifshe has sexual relations with another man while
her husband is still alive, sheis called an adulteress. But if her
husband dies, she is released fromthat law and is not an adulteress if

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she marries another man. So,my brothers and sisters, you also died
to the law through the body ofChrist, that you might belong to another
to him who is raised from thedead in order that we might bear fruit
for God. For when we werein the realm of the flesh, the
sinful passions aroused by the law wereat work in us, so that we

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bore fruit for death. But nowby dying to what would once bound us,
we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the
new way of the spirit, andnot the old way of the written code.
What shall we say, then,is the law sinful? Certainly not.
Nevertheless, I would not have knownwhat sin was had it not been

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for the law, For I wouldnot have known what coveting really was if
the law had not said you shallnot covet. But sin seizing the opportunity
afforded by the commandment produced in meevery kind of coveting. For apart from
the law, sin was dead onceonce I was alive, apart from the

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law. But when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
I found that the very commandment thatwas intended to bring life actually brought
death. For sin seizing the opportunityafforded by the commandment deceived me and through
the commandment, put me to death. So then the law is holy and

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the commandment is holy, righteous,and good. Did that which is good
then become death to me by nomeans. Nevertheless, in order that sin
might be recognized as sin, itused what is good to bring about my
death, so that through the commandment, sin might become utterly sinful. We

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know that the law is spiritual,but I am unspiritual, sold as a
slave to sin. I do notunderstand what I do for what I do.
Excuse me for what I want todo I do not do, but
what I hate to do. Andif I do what I do not want
to do, I agree that thelaw is good as it is. It

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is no longer I myself who doit, but is the sin living in
me? For I know that gooditself does not dwell in me, that
is in my sinful nature. ForI have the desire to do what is
good, but I cannot carry itout. For I do not do the
good I want to do, butthe evil I do not want to do.
This I keep on doing. Now. If I do what I do

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not want to do, it isno longer I who do it, but
it is the sin living in methat does it. So I find this
law at work. Although I wantto do good evil is right there with
me. For in my inner beingI delight in God's law, But I
see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my

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mind and making me a prisoner ofthe law of sin at work within me.
What a wretched man I am,who will rescue you from this body
that is subject to death. Thanksbe to God who delivers me through Jesus
Christ, our Lord. So thenI myself, in my mind, am
a slave to God's law, butin my sinful nature a slave to the

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law of sin. Thank you fortuning in