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Rom.7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21}

God did not place an unrighteous headship over the nation of Israel; he placed a righteous headship over his people the Law, a tutor leading to the headship of Christ Jesus. Paul was not going to declare the Law of God as unrighteous, never may that be so! The Law is perfect it cannot be broken with out consequences, the consequences for breaking the Law is death. Simply put, the Law is perfect because God is the Law and He is perfect, but we are imperfect, so the Law proves we our sinners, subsequently, we
cannot obey it as we should.

Thus, if there is no Law than there is not sin, removing the Law removed our sins, and this is the cruxes of Paul’s further reasoning in this part of his letter to the Romans. Law measure human conduct, it is a marker that judges our conduct, wither it is upright according to its standard. Because the standard of eternal life is the fabric of the Old Law; none of us can meet it. Thus, all the Law can do is

expose our sins, which produce death. In other words, this is why all humans are dying, we now know why because of the Law showed us why, or teaches us through coercion of death its truth.

However, the law cannot give us life, because we can’t measure up to it high standards, so we are condemned by it rather than declared righteous through its standards. We are judged rather than set free from our sins and judgment under the Law. The Law is righteous, but it produce more sin in us in pointing up our sins. But if we do not have law than our sins don’t count against us.

Rom.7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

A part from law sin is dead! Paul here is setting the stag to show the power of Christ Jesus. Sins can be eventually removed from the humans race by Christ Jesus through fulfilling the Law and removing Laws judgment kills the power of sin over us, putting it to death immediately.

Yes, Jesus Christ removed the Law, thus, sin is dead for those in Christ Jesus, he did not take our sin out of us, he simple removed the thing judging us as sinners. Incomprehensible, to human reasoning, only love would allow for such a thing as this; a complete pardon of our sin! We are still sinners, but our judgment has been removed in Christ Jesus, thus, making the power of sin dead towards us. God fulfills His words to the prophets by casting our sins into the sea, so far from us they are remembered no more by Him.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the
disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever,
because he delights in loving kindness. 7:19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Sin is dead in us, not because sin is removed from us, no! It is because the Law exposing our sins has been removed so our sin are dead. The thing removing the Law is Jesus Christ Holy blood that paid the price or ransom for our sins. He paid the debt we owed for our sins, his blood atoned for our sins. In other words, because we are apart of Christ Jesus we receive the gift of his perfect life.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.