Romans 7:8-9
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Romans 7:8-9. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
"I did not know how sinful I was until God’s commandment came to me.
Sin seemed to be dead within me, and I thought myself a righteous man; but when the law of God came home to my heart and conscience, and I understood that even a sinful thought would ruin me, that a hasty word had the essence of murder in it, and that the utmost uncleanness might lurk under the cover of what seemed a mere custom of my fellow-men, - when I found out all this, sin did indeed live, but I died so far as righteousness was concerned."