Category: Devotions

Scripture: Romans 7:24-25“Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” ReflectionPaul’s cry of “Wretched man that I am!” isn’t the end of the story — it’s the hinge on which the whole passage turns. The question “Who will […]

Scripture: Romans 7:21-23“I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making […]

Scripture: Romans 7:12-13“So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which […]

Scripture: Romans 7:9-11“I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.” ReflectionPaul describes something […]

Scripture: Romans 7:7-8“What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COVET.’ But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, […]