...the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, 21 I and I died. 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For...

...heart, and strongly realized by the sinner. This fact is thus forcibly described by St. Paul : ' For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' He was ' alive,' that is, in his own feelings, while he was ' without the law ;' or while...

...three thousand on the day of Penticost lost their hopes. And thus Paul tells us he lost his hopes. " I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." All secure sinners are liable to lose their hopes in this way ; and they must lose their...

...Rom. v. 13. 20. Gal. iii. 19. I had not known sin but by the law, &c. without the law, sin was dead. I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, &c. That sin might appear sin, &c. and by the commandment might become exceeding sinful....

...20. " through the law, am dead to the law :" which accords to his language elsewhere, when he says, " I was alive without the law once, but when the " commandment came, sin revived and I died ; " 1 where the moral law exclusively is meant, beyond all doubt : and he adds, " If righteousness...

...power resides always and only in the indwelling Holy Spirit. Verses 9, 10: And I was alive apart from, law once: but when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died; and the Commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death : The words alive apart from law once — to what stage of...

...strength of sin, the apostle, when treating a similar question in another place, says, "The law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is holy made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that...

...contrary to us? Only when we are guilty, only when we stand as sinners before the law, does it condemn us. "And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death... That sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful." Romans 7:10, 13. God ordained that His...

...the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead, 9. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11. For...

...condemnation for past, present and future sins. God is no longer a condemning Judge but a loving Father ...'I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died' (Rom. 7:9). When consciousness is awakened to the guilt and condemnation which sin entails,...