Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.… Once a man appeared in Athens who gave out that he could read character correctly at sight. Some of the disciples of Socrates brought their master forward, and bade the physiognomist try his power upon him. "One of the worst types of humanity in the city," he declared; "a natural thief, a constitutional liar, a sad glutton." At this moment the friends of Socrates interrupted with rebuke and denial. But Socrates stopped them to say that the man was too certainly and sadly right, that it was the struggle of his life to master just these defects of character. "I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals," said Martin Luther. "For that which I do, I allow not; for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I," exclaimed St. Paul. Parallel Verses KJV: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.WEB: For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. |
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