Maria Esther Torres

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.

almost 11 years ago

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."

almost 11 years ago

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.

almost 11 years ago

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.

almost 11 years ago

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.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:48 ESV

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the Lord!

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:47 ESV

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:46 ESV

He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:45 ESV

For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:44 ESV

Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:39 ESV

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:38 ESV

they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:37 ESV

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:36 ESV

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:34-35 ESV

They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them,

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Psalms 106:31 ESV

And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 12:17 ESV

But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the Lord."

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 12:16 ESV

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the Lord lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 12:15 ESV

And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 12:11 ESV

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.

almost 11 years ago

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