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NASB | Romans 7:14 ¶ For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 7:14 ¶ We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant--carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control]. |
Subject: "the law is spiritual, but I am carnal" |
Bible Note: Admittedly the Romans 7:14-25 passage has been read from differing perspectives, but I cannot divorce from my mind Paul's usage of verbs in the present tense and for this reason as well as the general contextual sense that I gather from studying the passage, I must cast my lot with those who hold that the passage is nothing if not autobiographical and designed as revelatory of what the apostle himself experienced in the flesh as a follower of Christ and as universally exemplary of the problems that all believers experience in their battle with sin. It is the kind of struggle that is common and peculiar to regenerate believers only, not unregenerate sinners, who, dead in their sins, know no such struggle. --Hank |