Romans 7:11
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For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
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SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. (Rom. 7:1-25) I speak to them that know the law--of Moses to whom, though not themselves Jews (see on Rom 1:13), the Old Testament was familiar.
Open source ↗We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification (Rom 7:1-6). II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle's own experience, notwithstanding (Rom 7:7-14). III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart (Rom 7:14, Rom 7:15, to the end).
Open source ↗7:11 Sin . . . deceived me: The language is reminiscent of Gen 3:13—Paul might be thinking of the Fall.
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Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;