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romans 7:1 “Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?”

Romans 7:11 “For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.”

“Paul is pointing to a complete and final break with law. This does not mean antinomianism, as the apostle’s whole argument in this part of his letter makes clear. The release “is not from the righteousness which is taught in the law, but from the rigid demands of the law and from the curse which follows from its demands””

Leon Morris, The Epistle to the Romans, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 272.

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