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Error: '2 Chronicles 6:12-8:10' not found for the version: Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Romans 7:14-8:8

I Agree The Law Is Good, But The Sin In Me Produces Behavior I Hate

¹⁴For^[a] we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am made-of-flesh^[b], having been sold under sin. ¹⁵For I do not understand^[c] what^[d] I am producing. For I am not practicing this which I am wanting, but I am doing this which I am hating. ¹⁶But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am agreeing-with^[e] the Law— that it is good. ¹⁷And now I am no longer producing it, but the sin^[f] dwelling in me is.

I Know I Am Not Good, For I Cannot Do The Good I Want To Do

¹⁸For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. For the wanting is present in me, but the producing the good is not. ¹⁹For I am not doing the good which I am wanting, but I am practicing this evil which I am not wanting. ²⁰But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am no longer producing it, but the sin^[g] dwelling in me is.

So The Evil Inside Me Enslaves Me To The Law of Sin And Death In Me

²¹I find then the law^[h] in me, the one wanting to do the good, that the evil is present in me. ²²For I am rejoicing-with^[i] the Law of God according-to^[j] the inner person. ²³But I am seeing a different law in my body-parts waging-war-against^[k] the law of my mind, and taking me captive^[l] under the law of sin existing in my body-parts. ²⁴I am a wretched^[m] person! Who will deliver me from this^[n] body of ^[o] death? ²⁵But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself am serving the Law of God with the mind, but the law of sin with the flesh.

This Does Mean That There Is Now No Condemnation For Those In Christ Jesus

8 Therefore^[p], there is now no condemnation for the ones in Christ Jesus. ²For the law^[q] of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set you^[r] free from the law of sin and death!

For God Did What The Law Could Not Do, For Those Walking In The Spirit

³For the thing impossible^[s] for the Law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. Having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for^[t] sin, He condemned sin in the flesh^[u], ⁴in order that the requirement^[v] of the Law might be fulfilled in us, the ones walking not in-accordance-with^[w] the flesh, but in accordance with the Spirit.

For The Way of The Flesh Is Death. But You Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit

⁵For the ones being^[x] in accordance with the flesh are thinking^[y] the things of ^[z] the flesh, but the ones being in accordance with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶For the way-of-thinking of the flesh is death, but the way-of-thinking of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷Because the way-of-thinking of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject^[aa] to the Law of God, for it is not even able. ⁸And the ones being in the flesh are not able to please God.

Footnotes

Romans 7:14 The purpose of v14-25 is to prove that sin is responsible for death, not the Law. Paul uses himself as an example, and scholars debate whether he has in view his experience as a Pharisee or a Christian (each view giving a different sense to ‘Law’ and ‘death’). What Paul says in these verses is true of anyone trying to live under law.
Romans 7:14 That is, carnal, fleshly; or, human, of Adam’s race.
Romans 7:15 Or, ‘acknowledge’ as representing his true desires.
Romans 7:15 For example, this coveting, v 7.
Romans 7:16 Or concurring-with.
Romans 7:17 When God says not to do it, Paul agrees and does not want to do it, but sin produces it in him anyway. Thus it is sin, not God’s Law, that causes his death. The sin in him is against him and against God! How extremely sinful it truly is! This proves v 14b; Paul is under the dominion of sin.
Romans 7:20 Good is not in him producing good, but sin is in him producing sin, and overcoming his inner desire to obey God’s good Law. This proves v 18.
Romans 7:21 Or, the principle, the law of sin. v 23.
Romans 7:22 Or, taking pleasure with, delighting in.
Romans 7:22 Or with respect to.
Romans 7:23 The law of sin’s control over Paul’s body fights and defeats his inner desires to obey.
Romans 7:23 Or, making me prisoner.
Romans 7:24 Or, miserable.
Romans 7:24 Or, the body of this death.
Romans 7:24 That is, characterized by.
Romans 8:1 Paul now turns from correcting false inferences drawn from salvation by grace (ch 6-7) to again teaching true ones.
Romans 8:2 That is, the controlling power, the operative power.
Romans 8:2 This word is singular. Paul makes it personal.
Romans 8:3 That is, to conquer the death-producing power of sin.
Romans 8:3 Paul may mean as an offering for sin; or, to deal with sin in all its aspects.
Romans 8:3 Or, in His flesh.
Romans 8:4 This views the entire Law as a single requirement.
Romans 8:4 Or, in harmony with, in conformity with.
Romans 8:5 Or, existing, and thus, living. This is another way of saying ‘walking’, v 4.
Romans 8:5 Or, setting their minds on, being intent on. This is the focus of their hearts and minds.
Romans 8:5 That is, belonging to; proceeding from.
Romans 8:7 Or, does not subject-itself.

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