 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 340 pages
...you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not cotie*."] — Ye lust and have not; ye kill, you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the cheek, offer... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the olcinrss of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid....known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, exeept the law had said, Thou shalt not eovet. 8 But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...occasions to arise. " What shall " we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid, * Matthew, xxi. 43. N " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for " I...lust, except the law had said, " Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion " by the commandment, wrought in me all man" ner of concupiscence. For without... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1814 - 184 pages
...Ivive also told you in time past,that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? GOD forbid. Nay, I had not- known sin but by the law ; knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we sons of GOD, and it doth not yet appear... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And then he demands, " Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. . . . Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 558 pages
...sin ; that is, I had not so fully understood the abominable nature thereof as I do, but by the lanv: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet; and hereupon he concludes, that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (2.)... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1814 - 282 pages
...eompelled to plead guilty. He will now thoroughly eomprehend the meaning of St. Paul's eonfession : I had not known sin, but by the Law : for I had not known lust, exeept the Law had said, Thou shalt not eavet. But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought... | |
 | John Kingston - 1814 - 472 pages
...that spiritual precept, which made St. Paul say, / had not known lust, or a wrong desire to be sin, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet, Rom. vii. 7. Such being the extreme spirituality of the law, who can plead that he never was guilty of breaking... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...before he was awakened from his carnal ease and stupidity. "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Nay, I had not known sin but by the law: for I had...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the... | |
 | Daniel de Superville - 1816 - 436 pages
...are many crimes which men would not have known to be sins, " I " had not known sin," says St. Paul, " but by the " law : for I had not known lust, except the law " had said, Thou shalt not covet." It is the law, then which by awakening and enlightening our conscience, teaches us that sin deserves... | |
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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. 
