12But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.j
13But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
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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