Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.… Every Christian can adopt the language of this verse. Pride, coldness, slothfulness, and other feelings which he disapproves and hates, are, day by day, reasserting their power over him. He struggles against their influence, groans beneath their bondage, longs to be filled with meekness, humility, and all other fruits of the love of God, but finds he can neither of himself, nor by the aid of the law, effect his freedom from what he hates, or the full performance of what he desires and approves. Every evening witnesses his penitent confession of his degrading bondage, his sense of utter helplessness, and his longing desire for aid from above. He is a slave looking and longing for liberty. (C. Hodge, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.WEB: For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. |
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