7What 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.”g
Romans 7 plunges us into the apostle Paul's most personal and anguished reflection on the human condition under the law. He argues that believers have died to the law through Christ's body, freeing them to serve in the new way of the Spirit. Yet the chapter is best known for its
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