Maria Esther Torres
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:14 ESV
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:25 ESV
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:24 ESV
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:23 ESV
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:22 ESV
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:21 ESV
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:20 ESV
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:19 ESV
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:18 ESV
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:17 ESV
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:16 ESV
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:15 ESV
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:12 ESV
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:11 ESV
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:10 ESV
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:8 ESV
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:7 ESV
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:6 ESV
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:5 ESV
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Romans 7:4 ESV
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Dec 21