Romans 7: Gods Laws reveal our sins

7 Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.” ⁸ But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.⁹ At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,¹⁰ and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead. ¹¹ Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me. ¹² But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.

• The Law is not sinful, it is holy right and good.
• it helps us to know what sin is
• before learning and understanding the law we dont really know what sin is
• but when we learn of the law sin, like paul says, comes into our lives
• sin takes advantage of the commands of the Law and leads us astray.
• it stirs in us unholy desires
• the Laws commands brought death instead of life
• sin takes advantage of them and decieves us
• it kills us

¹³ But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

• sin used what was good to kill us
• sin is so evil that it would taint something so good for its own evil desires.