Romans 7:7 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁷ What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.

²⁸ I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁵ And then he added: "Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of his prosperity a man's true Life does not depend on what he has."

³³ I have never coveted any one's gold or silver or clothing.

⁵ But what if our wrong-doing makes God's righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a man.) Heaven forbid!

²⁰ For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

¹ What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?

¹⁵ Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

⁵ When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

⁸ But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

¹¹ Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death.

¹³ Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve Death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved Death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my Death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.

⁹ The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

⁵⁶ It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.

³ As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

⁵ And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him; ¹⁶ for all that the world can offer--the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life--belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.