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Romans 7:12
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Romans 7:12
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12 So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.(A)
Sin and Death.[a]
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- 7:13–25 Far from improving the sinner, law encourages sin to expose itself in transgressions or violations of specific commandments (see Rom 1:24; 5:20). Thus persons who do not experience the justifying grace of God, and Christians who revert to dependence on law as the criterion for their relationship with God, will recognize a rift between their reasoned desire for the goodness of the law and their actual performance that is contrary to the law. Unable to free themselves from the slavery of sin and the power of death, they can only be rescued from defeat in the conflict by the power of God’s grace working through Jesus Christ.
Romans 7:16
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Romans 7:16
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16 Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good.
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