Romans:7

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* Do you not know , Achim b 'Moshiach , for I speak to those who know the Torah , that the Torah exercises marut (note :)authority , rule (:note ) over a man so long as he lives ? * For the agunah is bound by the Torah to her husband while he lives ; but if her husband dies she is released from the Torah of her husband . * Accordingly she will be named no 'eh-fet (note :)adulteress (:note ) if , while her husband lives , she becomes another man 's . But if her ba 'al husband dies , she is free from the Torah , so that she is no no 'eh-fet adulteress if she becomes another man 's . * So then , Achim b 'Moshiach , you also were put to death in relation to the Torah through the basar of Moshiach (note :)Tehillim strkjv @16:9-10 ; (:note ), in order that you might become another 's , bound to the One who was raised from the mesim , so that we might bear p 'ri for Hashem . * For when we were in the basar (note :)in the fallen condition of the old humanity (:note ), the ta 'avat besarim , the sinful passions through the Torah were working in our natural capacities , so as to bear p 'ri for mavet death . * But now we have been released from the dominating ownership of the Torah , having died to that by which we were confined , so that we might serve in hitkhadeshut haRuach [haKodesh ] (note :)the newness of the Holy Spirit (:note ) and not in the oldness of the chumra strict adherence to the letter of the law , legalismsee strkjv @2:29 . THE PROBLEM OF INDWELLING CHET AND ITS EXISTENTIAL POWER ; FOR WITHOUT THE MAVET OF THE OLD HUMANITY AND THE HITKHADESHUT OF THE NEW HUMANITY IN MOSHIACH , THE CHUKIM OF THE TORAH AROUSES THE TA 'AVOT HACHET , FOR MY BASAR , MY FALLEN HUMANITY , IS NOT MERELY PLAGUED BY THE YETZER HARAH , THE EVIL INCLINATION ; IT IS BLIND AND HOSTILE TO G-D , SOLD UNDER THE POWER OF SLAVEMASTER CHET , UNSPIRITUAL 7:14 , WITHOUT ANY GOOD 7:18 , UNDER THE INBORN SWAY OF BONDAGE TO SIN 7:14 , AND BEETZEM IN FACT CONSTITUTES THE CONDITION WHEREIN THE SINFUL LUSTS ARE IN OPERATION 7:5 . * What then shall we say ? That the Torah is considered as chet (note :)sin (:note )? Chas v 'shalom ! Nevertheless , I would not have experienced chet sin except through the Torah ; for I would not have known chamdanut covetousness /greediness if the Torah had not said , LO TACHMOD "Thou shalt not covet "--SHEMOT strkjv @20:17 . * But Chet (note :)Sin (:note ), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh commandment , stirred up all manner of chamdanut covetousness in me . For in the absence of the Torah , Chet Sin is dead . * And in the absence of the Torah I was once alive . But when the mitzvoh (note :)commandment (:note ) came , Chet Sin became alive , * and I died . The mitzvoh (note :)commandment (:note ) intended as the Derech L 'Chayim Way to Life proved for me a means to mavet death . * For Chet (note :)Sin (:note ), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh commandment , deceived me and , through the mitzvoh commandment , killed me . * So that the Torah is kedosha (note :)holy (:note ) and the mitzvoh commandment is kedosha and yasharah and tovah . * Did that which is good , then , become mavet (note :)death (:note ) to me ? Chas v 'shalom ! But Chet Sin , it was Chet , working mavet death in me through that which is good , in order that Chet might be shown as Chet Sin , and in order that Chet through the mitzvoh commandment might become chata 'ah gedolah ad-m 'od utterly sinful . * For we know that the Torah is Ruchanit (note :)Spiritual , of the Ruach Hakodesh (:note ); but I am of the basar fallen humanity sold under the power of slavemaster Chet . * For I do not know what I do /what I bring about . For that which I commit is not what I want ; but what I hate , that I do . * But if that which I do is what I do not want , I agree with the Torah that the Torah is good . * But now it is no longer I doing this /bringing this about , but [the power of ] Chet (note :)Sin (:note ) which dwells within me . * For I know that there dwells in me , that is , in my basar (note :)my fallen humanity (:note ) no good thing ; for the wish to do what is right lies ready at hand for me , but to accomplish the good is not . * For I fail to do good as I wish , but haRah (note :)the evil (:note ) which I do not wish is what I commit . * But if what I do not wish is that which I do , it is no longer I doing it but [the power of ] Chet (note :)Sin , Chet Kadmon , Original Sin (:note ) which dwells within me . * I find then the chok (note :)law (:note ), for me who wishes to do haTov the Good , that for me haRah the Evil lies ready at hand . * For I rejoice , I have simcha Torah , I have joy in the Torah of Hashem (note :)the Torah of G-d (:note ), so far as the inner man is concerned , * but I see another Chok (note :)decree /law (:note ) in my natural capacities at war with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Chok law of Chet Sin which is [a power ] in my natural capacities . * Wretched man am I ! Who will deliver me from the body of this mavet (note :)death (:note )? * Hodu l 'Hashem baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu (note :)Thanks be to G-d in Yehoshua the Messiah our L-rd (:note ). So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem the Torah of G-d and with my basar I serve the Chok of Chet the Law of Sin .

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