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Only A Sinner Saved By Grace???

who are not converted serve the law of sin

(Rom. 7:25).

And when Paul referred to himself as the

chief of sinners in 1 Timothy 1:15, he was

expressing a continual consciousness of his

sinful past (just as many believers today look

back with regret—and often with disgust—

at their past sins before they were converted).

But Paul was not inferring that he continued

to be the chief of sinners after he was

converted (as some professing Christians

would like to believe). In fact, Paul had an

extreme sensitivity and abhorrence for sin,

and in Romans 7:24, he communicated his

intense repulsion for the wretchedness of his

sinful nature.

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