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

Law is very personal, law gets personal with us judging us worthy, or not worthy, but is the law evil, or the person it is judging? Moreover, what of God's perfect law, whom did it not judge as evil as a sinner? Many Christian's find this very offensive taking God's righteous law as personal making them feel bad where they want to feel good about themselves. Than there are others, whom think that if something is completed and set aside, that is, done away with, it must have been bad, and/or evil! Have you experience any of these thoughts and feelings over God's law, or the book of Romans? Lastly, there are those Christian's who think using the law because it was righteous and good means it can't be fulfilled so they mixes the new covenant and the old covenant together thinking if its good, and from God that using both is better, thus, ensues the endless debate!

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

We human are not given too feeling bad for very long, we judge ourselves better than others, and we often judge other harshly, this is the nature of our sinful flesh. Hence, this was God's purpose in giving mankind the law, it was not to remove sin, or that they might feel superior to others because they kept some of God's law, or that they taught God's law, or even if they loved God's law. The law had but one point to show that we are sinner all of us, convicting us of not being a god, perfect enough to demand eternal life from God. Let us never forget this is what Satan tricked Eve into believing that she could be independent of God, she could chose good and evil. The law proved that wrong. With the law we condemn all people as unrighteous and as a sinner.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Those thinking the law is their friend, and that it pats them on the back while condemning their neighbor are fools, because the law is no ones friend not unless they are a sinless person. Furthermore, if you think you are not a sinner than the laws says you are a liar! Many Christian's are upset the law is not their friend because they uses it so much to feel above others, and judge evil of other to protect themselves, like a god! The law is a very powerful tool, no human being can stand when judged by God's righteous perfect law. But foolish people thinking God is partial that their feelings of love for God, and his law makes them exempt from the condemnation of God's law, but they are dead wrong as the apostle Paul found out when he started judging others and himself by God perfect standards which are not for a righteous man without sin, but for sinners.

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Here the Christian's at Paul's time wanted their old friend the law, thinking it kissed their mouths, thinking without it how could they judge and put people into their proper place. The new covenant of Christ striped all authority from those wanting power upon earth and placed it rightly into God's hands alone. It striped every self-righteous person making them equal as brothers and sisters not holding debts of wrong like the law did in declaring all sinners.

Col.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. 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 2:14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 2:15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Here at Paul's time they actually thought the law made them better, a better sinner? Can you imagine that? Well, church people do that, and those in government with laws do the same, and even those in commerce do so! So why would we think the law changes our nature? It does not, it is an illusion making a person feel righteous in their flesh by exercising self-control through rules and laws. Sadly, and unfortunately, most Christian's have no idea they can't put away the filth of their own flesh by the law, or rules of any group, it is an illusion because at the end of the day all sinful flesh perish and so does its thoughts, from the lust of its flesh!

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In other words, if your a sinner you cannot keep a perfect law it is impossible. The imperfection in us, cannot keep a perfect law. What a perfect instrument does is kill sinners, it does not say: “If you uses me, you are not a sinner and better!” For the law does not think or talk, human do in justifying their sins. The law is cold hard facts, and/or truth that judges without feelings or partiality, so if your a sinner you are dead in your sins that is what the law judges you and me as, and nothing more. Please don't be deceived by some good thought or feeling coming from your flesh, sober up to righteousness!

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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