8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.h
9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.i
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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