Romans 7:2-13 KJV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:2-3

‘For the woman who has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. So then if, while the husband lives, she be joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress, but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.’ He now gives an illustration of the dominion of the Law and of how someone can be delivered from the Law through a death, in an... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:4

‘On which basis, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.’ In the same way the sacrificial death of Christ (‘through the body of Christ’; compare ‘He bore our sin in His own body on the tree’ - 1 Peter 2:24) has made us ‘dead to the Law’. While Jesus was alive on earth men were bound by the Law. Indeed in Galatians 4:4 Paul tells us that... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:5

‘For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.’ For when we were living our old lives under the Law (we were in the flesh, following the ways of the flesh, compare Romans 8:5-9) the sinful passions within us were stirred up by the Law, and the Law therefore worked within us making us produce fruit which could only result in death (compare Romans 1:32; Galatians 5:17; Galatians 5:19-21). Here is one example... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:6

‘But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so as to serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.’ But now we (our ‘old man’) have died with Christ, and we are therefore now discharged from the Law, having died to that in which we were held (note that here it is seemingly ‘the wife’ (we) who has died in Christ’s death). The coroner has, as it were, declared us dead and therefore untouchable by the Law. And the consequence is... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7

‘However, I had not known (egnown) sin, except through the law. For I had not known (edein) coveting, except the law had said, “You shall not covet,” ’ For it was through the Law that Paul had come to ‘know sin as a personal experience’ (egnown). The Law had taught him intellectually the essential nature of ‘coveting’ (following illicit desire) in such a way that he had come to understand it in his mind (edein), as found in Exodus 20:17, and as a consequence he had come to recognise it... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7-13

Paul’s Initial Experience Of The ‘Slaying’ Power Of The Law (7:7-13). Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law does in Romans 7:1-6 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Paul now faces up to the shocking question as to whether that means that he equates the Law to sin. And, knowing what the horrified reaction of his hearers would be he immediately says, ‘Certainly not!’ For many of them saw the Law as something to be greatly revered, both because it had come from... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7-25

Paul’s Personal Experience Of The Law, Used As An Illustration In Order That The Roman Christians Might Also Apply It To Themselves, Demonstrating Both The Holiness And The Powerlessness of The Law; The Sinfulness Of Our Flesh, Even Though Redeemed; The Transformation Of The Redeemed Mind; And The Way Of Release Through Jesus Christ Our Lord And The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus (7:7-8:2). Paul now gives what we might see as a personal testimony (note the singular personal pronouns... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:8

‘For apart from the law sin is dead.’ For until the Law comes on the scene sin is able to continue its work unnoticed. It is as though it was dead. It lies there unnoticed and seemingly dormant, yet working all kinds of things within people, until suddenly it is exposed. And then they are faced with the decision as to whether they should repent and seek God’s mercy. This activity of sin of which they are unaware, is something experienced by all people, although sadly in many cases they die with... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:9

‘And I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,’ This was what had happened to Paul, while he was still Saul. He had been striving with all his might to obey the Law, and had prided himself on how well he was doing (Galatians 1:13-14; Philippians 3:4-6), so much so that he had seen it as ‘making him alive’ (‘the man who does these things will live in them’ - Leviticus 18:5; Galatians 3:12). He had been confident that he was on the way to eternal... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:10

‘And the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death,’ And the result was that the commandment which was found in the Law, the commandment which was supposed to be giving him life, was found by him to be ‘unto death’. He had recognised that his hopes of eternal life had gone. He was under sentence of death, and had like Adam felt himself as having been thrust out of the presence of God. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:2-3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7-13

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:7-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:10

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