...known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said. Thou shall not covet. 8 sco@ < For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when An Illustration...

...version of the Bible reads: 1s the law sin? God forbid. Nay, 1 had not known sin, but by the law: for 1 had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou...commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For 1 was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,...

...spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay. I had not known sin. but by the law: for I had not...commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,...

...their betterment of heart, or retard the power of sin; it provoked them to sin. As the Apostle says: "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence" (Rom. 7:8). There can be no question about the righteous character of the law; for it is written: "Wherefore...

...Therefore self-love cannot be the proper cause of sin. Obj. 2. Further, the Apostle says (Rom. vii. 8): Sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; on which words the Gloss says that the law is good, since by forbidding concupiscence, it forbids all...

...I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,...

...I had not known sin, but by the law. For I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once ; but when the commandment came,...

...out in all the outward members. Thus sin grows bold, and spurns the law, becoming exceedingly sinful. "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came,...

...which forbids men to sin ; but as the poet says, Nitimur in vctttum ; or rather as the apostle says, Sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiicence, Rom. vii. 8. the gospel also sent to men, is the occasion of the stirring up the corruption...

..."I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence [lust] . For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment...