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 wrongdoing brings to light the uprightness of God, what shall we infer? Is it wrong (I am using everyday human terms) for God to inflict punishment?
Romans 4:1
Then what are we to say about our forefather Abraham?
Romans 6:15
What are we to conclude? Are we to keep on sinning, because we are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor? Never!
Is the law
Romans 7:8
Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.
1 Corinthians 15:56
Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.
I had
Romans 7:5
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
Romans 3:20
Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.
Lust
Romans 7:8
Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not out of evil passions as the heathen do who do not know God;
Thou shalt
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not have an evil desire," and any other commandment if there is any, are summed up in this command, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman so as to have an evil desire for her at once has already committed adultery with her in his heart,
Luke 12:15
And then He said to them, "Be ever on the alert and always on your guard against every form of greed, because a man's life does not consist in his possessions, even though they are abundant."
Acts 20:33
I have never coveted any man's silver or gold or clothes.
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;
Colossians 3:5
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
1 John 2:15
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,