Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Is the law
I had
Bible References
What
Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
Romans 4:1
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?
Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Is the law
Romans 7:8
But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
I had
Romans 7:5
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.
Romans 3:20
Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Lust
Romans 7:8
But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust like the heathen, who do not know God;
Thou shalt
Romans 13:9
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
Acts 20:33
I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.
Ephesians 5:3
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.