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Romans 7:8

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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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  1. Romans 7:6

    But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

  2. Romans 7:7

    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 known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

  3. Romans 7:9

    For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  4. Romans 7:10

    And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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