9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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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.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. …
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Isa. the law sin ? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experi…
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