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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I was alive without the law once; I thought that I was everything that was good. I imagined that I was doing everything that was right. I felt no rebellion in my heart. I was alive. Rom_7:9. But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. I kicked at that commandment. My holiness was soon gone. The excellence which I thought I had in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the commandment which was ordained to life,.... The law which promised a continuance of an immortal life to Adam, in case of perfect obedience to it; and which was appointed to the Israelites, that by the observation of it they might live in the land of Canaan, and in the quiet and full possession of their privileges and enjoyments; but was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. “If I sinned the more when God’s commandment was revealed to me;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But, sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For sin taking occasion by the commandment,.... As in Romans 7:8, deceived me; either by promising pleasure or impunity: the same effect is ascribed by the Jews to the evil imagination or corruption of nature, which they say is called an enticer, שמפתה אדם, "that deceives man" (g): and by it slew me; mortally wounded me: not the law, but sin by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore the law is holy,.... This is a conclusion or inference drawn from the preceding discourse, in commendation of the law; that standing clear of any charge or imputation of sin, as being the cause of it. This epithet the apostle gives to the law is what the Jews frequently give it; worthy are the Israelites, say they (h), "to whom is given...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Was then that which is good, made death unto me?.... An objection is started upon the last epithet in commendation of the law; and it is as if the objector should say, if the law is good, as you say, how comes it to pass that it is made death, or is the cause of death to you? can that be good, which is deadly, or the cause of death? or can that be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: The law of the Lord is a far higher thing than it seems to be in the esteem of many people. Talk not of it as a mere “decalogue.” It has far-reaching hands, and it affects...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For we know that the law is spiritual,.... We who have a spiritual understanding of the law, who have been led into the true nature of it by the Spirit of God, know by experience that that itself is "spiritual"; and therefore can never be the cause of sin or death: the law may be said to be "spiritual", because it comes from the Spirit of God; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I am carnal, sold under sin. “I am carnal.” There is the source of all the mischief, — a disobedient and rebellious subject, not an irksome law. The law is good enough, it is absolutely perfect; “but,” says the apostle, “I am carnal,” — fleshly, — “sold under sin.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, Fleshly. Rom_7:14. Sold under sin. Even now that I have become a Christian and am renewed by grace.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For that which I do, I allow not,.... The apostle having cleared the law from the charge of being the cause either of sin or death, and taken the blame to himself, proceeds to give an account of the struggle and combat he found in himself between the flesh and spirit; "that which I do, I allow not". That which he did was evil, since he allowed not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: The man himself does that which is evil, but his conscience revolts against it. Rom_7:15. For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. This is a strange contradiction, — a man who has grace enough to will to do good, and yet does it not. There are two men in the one man, — the new nature struggling...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: I often do that which I do not justify, which I do not wish to do again, which I abhor myself for doing.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If then I do that which I would not,.... This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experience; that since what he did, though it was contrary to the law of God, yet was what he did not will nor allow of, but hated, it must be a clear point, that he consented to the law, that it was good; lovely and amiable; that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. “If I do that against which and my conscience rebel, so far, the better part of me owns the goodness of the law, though the baser part of me rebels against it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. This is the believer’s riddle. To say that this is not a believer’s experience is to prove that the man who says it does not know much about how believers feel. We hate sin, and yet, alas! alas! we fall into it! We would live perfect lives if we could, we that are renewed. We make no...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now then, it is no more I that do it,.... This is another inference, deduced from what is before said, that since he did not approve, but hated what he did, and willed the contrary, it was not he as spiritual, as born again, as a new man, a new creature, that did it; see 1 John 3:9. He says, But sin that dwelleth in me; the old man, the carnal I,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. The renewed man still stands out against sin. His heart is not wishful to sin, but that old nature within him will sin even to the end.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now then it is no more I that do it, The real “I,” the true “I,” the new-born “ego.” Thank God for that—to have a will to do good, to have a strong, passionate desire to be holy. “To will is present with me.” Rom_7:17. But sin that dwelleth in me. I would be earnest in prayer, and my thoughts are distracted. I would love God with all my heart, and...