Romans 7:7-7:8

I Fought the Law and the Law Won

Knowing the right thing we should do and yet struggling - failing and doing the wrong thing. That is our daily challenge and it is the same challenge experienced by Paul the Apostle. He wrote about this struggle in Romans chapter seven. There is obviously a place for the law in the life of a believer, even though we are not saved by any law we follow - we are saved through faith in Christ.

  1. 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.
  2. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.