5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. …
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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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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