1Know ye not, brethren,(for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (Rom. 6:14), that we are not under the law ; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (Rom. 7:6): We are delivered from the law . What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are del…
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