Romans Chapter 7 Vs. 10

 

The Law and Sin

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. Rom 7:10

commandment which was... The commandment condemned and killed me.

The law was first given to help people understand what the will of God was and show that it was possible to please God by keeping His commandants.

Perfect obedience to the law could bring eternal life, and with it happiness and holiness. But no one except Christ could or has ever fully obeyed it.

Thus the law was our schoolmaster to show us that we needed Christ as the only way to eternal life.

Repeating from Rom. 7:8 his description of sin’s relationship to the commandment, Paul declared that sin… deceived me. Apart from the Law, the principle of sin was dormant and inactive; but using the commandments of the Law, it demonstrated its controlling force over one’s actions.