Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who
know the law [Torah]), that the law [Torah] has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
For the married woman is bound by law [Torah] to her
husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the
law [Torah] concerning the husband. So then,
if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called
an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law [Torah concerning the husband], so that she is not an
adulteress though she is joined to another man. (Romans
7:1-3)
Therefore, my brethren,
you also were made to die to the Law [Torah concerning
the husband, who is sin and death] through the body of Christ, so
that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in
order that we might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the
sinful passions, which were {aroused} by the Law [Torah], were at work in the members of our body to bear
fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law [Torah concerning the husband, the husband being sin
and death], having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve
in newness of the Spirit [Walking in the Spirit which is
obedience to Torah] and not in oldness of the letter [which is keeping law or "going good" in order to deserve a place
in the Kingdom, i.e., legalism]. (Romans 7:4-6)
What shall
we say then? Is the Law [Torah] sin? May it never be!
On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law [Torah]; for I would not have known about coveting if the
Law [Torah] had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." But
sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of
every kind; for apart from the Law [Torah] sin {is}
dead. I was once "alive" apart from the Law [Torah];
but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; and this
commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; for
sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it
killed me. So then, the Law [Torah] is holy, and the
commandment is holy and righteous and good. (Romans 7:7-12)
Therefore did that which is good
become {a cause} {of} death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order
that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is
good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. (Romans
7:13)
For we know that the Law [Torah]
is spiritual [I highlight this in
red for others' benefit, David, not necessarily yours], but I am
of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand;
for I am not practicing what I {would} like to {do,} but I am doing the very
thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want {to do,} I agree with the
Law [Torah], {confessing} that the Law [Torah] is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it,
but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is,
in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good {is}
not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I
do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the
one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. (Romans
7:14-20)
I find then the principle that evil is
present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law
[Torah] of God in the inner man, but I see a
different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law [Torah] of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of
sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from
the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,
on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law [Torah] of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of
sin. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life [Torah] in Christ
Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law [Torah] could not do, weak as it was through the flesh
[because Torah was never intended to provide a legalistic
path into the Kingdom], God {did:} sending His own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and {as an offering} for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so
that the requirement of the Law [Torah] might be
fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit [who grants us the power to keep Torah]. For
those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the
mind set on the flesh is [set on sin and] death, but
the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace [Torah],
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject
itself to the law [Torah] of God, for it is not even
able {to do so,} and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 7:21-8:8)
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