 | Church of England - 1830 - 548 pages
...the tenth commandment; " Thou shalt not covet," or lust, which the apostle takes notice of, saying, " I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet," Rom. vii. 7. And therefore this lust being, itself a sinB, and the saints themselves being subject... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 pages
...its infernal nature, " and," receiving a sentence of .death in myself, " I died. I had not" then " known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust," which is the source of every evil, and first cause of our condemnation, " except the law had said,... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...through the remainder of the chapter. " What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." That the reasoning throughout this refnarkable passage... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1831 - 466 pages
...we should say so. Nay, the law is an irreconcileable enemy to sin ; searching it out wherever it is. "I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust," evil desire to be sin, " except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet," ver. 7. After opening this... | |
 | Archibald Hall - Faith - 1831 - 472 pages
...informed us by what means he obtained these views of his sinful and wretched character. He says, " I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou slialt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought... | |
 | John (st.) - 1832 - 82 pages
...knowledge of sin."—Rom. iii. 20. " For where no law is there is no transgression."—ch. iv. 15. " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."—ch. vii. 7. c The family of David had so frequently... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...occasion of stirring up their opposing lustings, the Apostle asks : " Is the Law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the Law : for I had not known lust except the Law had said, ' Thou shalt not covet. ' "—Here he probably describes his earliest convictions.... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then ? is the law sin ! God forbid ! Nay, xiii. 3— 5. 25—28. Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outsi except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet Ro. vii. 5, 6, 7- Many are the enemies of the cross of... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1832 - 468 pages
...attaintng of evangelical righteousness. TEXT. 7 What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forhid! Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought... | |
 | Robert Walker (Vicar of St. Winnow.) - 1834 - 232 pages
...that is, by the legal and ceremonial law given to the Jews, " is the knowledge of sin ;"* and again, " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not known lust, except the law had said Thou shall not covet. "f The meaning is, I should not have known the covetous... | |
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin,. but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 
