The Law Reveals Sin

Law, Conflict, and the Cry for Rescue · Romans 7

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. The law is not sin; it names coveting and exposes sin’s deception. The lamp reveals existing corruption rather than causing it, while the closed scroll represents the holy, righteous, and good commandment.

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7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known coveting if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

8But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came to life,

10and I died, and the commandment that was for life proved to be for death to me.

11For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13So then, did what is good become death to me? May it never be! Rather, it was sin, so that it might be shown to be sin by producing death in me through what is good, in order that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

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