...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." And thus it was that sin " became exceeding sinful " in my renewed perceptions. For several weeks my...

...before us, we think we had sufficient evidence that there is no hope of salvation by the law ; and yet the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (Rom. vii. 12.) It is holy, because it comes from the holy God, from whom nothing that is unholy can...

...done, the moral nature of the man is unchanged. The Gospel, on the contrary, whilst it asserts that the law is holy and the commandment holy, and just, and good, presents to us the spectacle of the Son of God offering himself up as a propitiation for our sins....

...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? tiod forbid; but sin, that it might appear sin, working...

...to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Without the law sin was dead — Paul very clearly points out the sense of the former passage, for...

...setting their seal to the inscription — " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good ! " 1 But let us take care to exhibit the practical influence of our contemplations of the character...

...15:10). Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law (Romans 3:31). Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good (Romans 7: 12). For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His...

...always do what we want to do (and vice versa) is used by Paul in order to prove that — as he says — the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. No spirit of contrition here! The fact that we recognize our shortcomings shows that we "agree that...

...Christ's death a miscarriage of justice. Look once more at the law. Must we not agree with Paul that "the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good"! Bom. 7:12. Why should that which is holy and just and good be abolished ? It is folly to charge Paul...

...chiefly on what we may call the lower view of the Law, does not lose sight of the higher. To him also the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good (Rom. vii. 12). He also recognises that the Law is spiritual and Divine (vii. 14). It was the best...