Romans 7
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An Illustration from Marriage
1Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, # Rm 1:13 are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives? 2For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. # 1Co 7:39 But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband. 3So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death # Rm 6:2 in relation to the law # Rm 8:2; Gl 2:19; 5:18 through the crucified body of the Messiah, # Col 1:22 so that you may belong to another — to Him who was raised from the dead — that we may bear fruit for God. 5For when we were in the flesh, # = a person’s life before accepting Christ # Rm 8:8-10; 2Co 10:3 the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us # Lit of our members # Rm 6:13,21,23 and bore fruit for death. 6But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way # Lit in newness of the Spirit # Rm 2:29 and not in the old letter of the law.
Sin’s Use of the Law
7What should we say then? # Rm 3:5 Is the law sin? Absolutely not! # Lk 20:16 On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. # Rm 4:15; 5:20 For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. # Ex 20:17 # Ex 20:17 8And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, # Rm 3:20 produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. # 1Co 15:56 9Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life 10and I died. The commandment that was meant for life # Lv 18:5; Lk 10:28; Rm 10:5; Gl 3:12 resulted in death for me. 11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, # Gn 3:13 and through it killed me. 12So then, the law is holy, # 1Tm 1:8 and the commandment is holy and just and good.
The Problem of Sin in Us
13Therefore, did what is good cause my death? # Lit good become death to me? Absolutely not! # Lk 20:16 On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure. 14For we know that the law is spiritual, # 1Co 3:1 but I am made out of flesh, # Other mss read I am carnal sold # 1Kg 21:20,25; 2Kg 17:17; Rm 6:6; Gl 4:3 into sin’s power. # Rm 3:9 15For I do not understand what I am doing, # Jn 15:15 because I do not practice what I want to do, # Gl 5:17 but I do what I hate. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. 18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. # Jn 3:6; Rm 8:3 For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. 19For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. 20Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 21So I discover this principle: # Or law # Rm 8:2 When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. 22For in my inner self # Lit inner man I joyfully agree with God’s law. # 2Co 4:16; Eph 3:16; 1Pt 3:4 23But I see a different law in the parts of my body, # Lit my members # Rm 6:19; Gl 5:17; Jms 4:1; 1Pt 2:11 waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. # Lit my members 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body? # Rm 6:6; 8:2; Col 2:11 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! # Or Thanks be to God — (it is done) through Jesus Christ our Lord! # 1Co 15:57 So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.
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Romans 7
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1Do you not have da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, for I speak to those who know the Torah, that the Torah exercises marut (authority, rule) over a man so long as he lives?
2For the agunah (woman whose husbandʼs whereabouts are unknown) is bound by the gezetz to her husband while he lives; but in the case that her husbandʼs death can be confirmed, she is no longer an agunah and is released from the gezetz of her husband.
3Accordingly she will be named no'ehfet (adulteress) if, while her husband lives, she becomes another manʼs. But if her ba'al (husband) dies, she is free from the gezetz, so that she is no no'ehfet (adulteress) if she becomes another manʼs.
4So then, Achim b'Moshiach, you also were put to death in relation to the Gezetz through the basar of Moshiach,#7:4 Ps 16:9-10; Ro 8:3 in order that you might become anotherʼs, bound to Moshiach who was given Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim, so that we might bear p'ri for Hashem.
5For when we were in the basar (in the fallen condition of the old humanity), through the Gezetz, the ta'avat besarim, the sinful passions#7:5 i.e., Chet Kadmonʼs yetzer harah of the fallen human condition were working in our natural capacities, so as to bear p'ri for mavet (death).#7:5 cf. Ro 4:15
6But now we have become niftar (freed, deceased) from the dominating ownership of the Gezetz, having died to that by which we were confined, so that we might serve in the Ruach Hakodesh of hitkhadshut and newness and not in the yoshen (oldness) of chumra (stringency, strict adherence to the letter of the law).#7:6 Ro 2:29
7What then shall we say? That the Gezetz is considered as chet (sin)? Chas v'shalom! Nevertheless, I would not have experienced chet (sin) except through the Gezetz; for I would not have known chamdanut (covetousness, greediness) if the Torah had not said, LO TACHMOD#7:7 Ex 20:17 (Thou shalt not covet).
8But Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), stirred up all manner of chamdanut (covetousness) in me. For in the absence of the Gezetz, Chet (Sin) is dead.
9And in the absence of the Gezetz I was once alive. But when the mitzvoh (commandment) came,#7:9 Gn 2:16-17 Chet (Sin) became alive,
10and I died. The mitzvoh (commandment) intended as the Derech L'Chayyim (Way to Life) proved for me a means to mavet (death).
11For Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), deceived me and, through the mitzvoh (commandment), killed me.#7:11 Gn 3:1-6
12So that the Torah is kedoshah (holy) and the mitzvoh (commandment) is kedoshah and yasharah and tovah.
13Did that which is good, then, become mavet (death) to me? Chas v'shalom! But Chet (Sin), it was Chet, working mavet (death) in me through that which is tovah, in order that Chet might be shown as Chet (Sin), and in order that Chet through the mitzvoh (commandment) might become chata'ah gedolah ad m'od (utterly sinful).
14For we have da'as that the Torah is Ruchanit (Spiritual, of the Ruach Hakodesh); but I am of the basar (fallen humanity) sold under the power of (slave master Chet Kadmon) Chet.
15For I do not have da'as what I do. For that which I commit is not what I want; no, it is what I hate that I do!
16But if that which I do is what I do not want, I agree with the Torah that the Gezetz is good.
17But now it is no longer I doing this, but [the power of] Chet (Sin) which dwells within me.#7:17 Ro 5:13-14; 6:23
18For I have da'as that there dwells in me, that is, in my basar (my fallen humanity enslaved to Chet Kadmon) no good thing; for the wish [to do what is right] lies ready at hand for me, but to accomplish the good is not.
19For I fail to do good as I wish, but HaRah (The Evil) which I do not wish is what I commit.
20But if what I do not wish is that which I do, it is no longer I doing it but [the power of] Chet (Sin, Chet Kadmon, Original Sin) which dwells within me.#7:20 cf. Ro 8:7-8
21I find then it be a Gezetz that for me who wishes to do HaTov (The Good), that for me HaRah (The Evil) lies ready at hand.
22For I rejoice, I have simcha Torah in the Torah of Hashem, so far as the adam hapenimi#7:22 Ep 3:16 is concerned,
23But I see another gezetz (law) in my natural capacities at milchamah (war) with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Gezetz of Chet (Sin) which is [a power] in my natural capacities.
24Wretched man am I! Who will deliver me from the body of this mavet (death)?
25Hodu l'Hashem (thanks be to G-d) baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem and with my basar I serve the Gezetz of Chet (the Law of Sin).#7:25 The total spiritual turn-around here described is when the conviction of the intellect, emotion, and will “obey from the heart the form of doctrine laid out here in Scripture” as we are born anew in the humanity of the new Man and die to the old depraved Adam
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