{"id":344,"date":"2008-04-27T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:39:54","slug":"romans-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Romans 7:1"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?<\/span>
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In Romans 6:15<\/span><\/a>, Paul asks if we should sin because we’re not under the law but under grace. In the rest of chapter 6, he answered the second part of the question (under grace). Now he goes back to the first part (not under the law).<\/h3>\n

The point of chapter seven is that sanctification doesn’t come by law any more than salvation does.<\/h3>\n

Chapter six showed that we were dead to sin. Now chapter seven shows that we are dead to the law. Chapter six shows how we are delivered from sin as our master. Chapter seven shows how we are delivered from the law as our husband.<\/h3>\n

Paul shows the defeat of trying to keep the law by his use of personal pronouns.<\/h3>\n