Do not covet – Romans 7:7-9
Vs 7 – Paul then answers his
critics and detractors by answering a question they had. Is the law sin? Paul says of course not. The law revealed what sin was. We would not have known about coveting if not
for the law when it said, do not say do not covet.
Vs 8 – But sin like any
living force seized upon an opportunity and produced in Paul every kind of
covetous desire. When you know what is
wrong, it produces a desire to do it, to prove you are not a prude. Paul says, “For apart from the law sin dead.”
Vs 9 – Paul says that once he
was alive apart from the law but when the commandments came sin became
alive. Mankind then knew what was wrong
and sin sprang to life and mankind died.
Some would then argue then, why did God bring the law? Sin was always present but it needed to be
revealed for the sinister thing is was, so it could be dealt with once and for
all.
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