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7 So Satan went out from the presence of the 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a
LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from deep pit;
the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. He who is abhorred by the LORD will
8 And he took for himself a potsherd with fall there.
which to scrape himself while he sat in the Romans 7:1–25
midst of the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak
fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” 7 to those who know the law), that the law
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the
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2 For the woman who has a husband is bound
foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept
good from God, and shall we not accept adver- by the law to her husband as long as he lives.
sity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. But if the husband dies, she is released from
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11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all the law of her husband. So then if, while her
this adversity that had come upon him, each husband lives, she marries another man, she
one came from his own place—Eliphaz the will be called an adulteress; but if her husband
Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no
Naamathite. For they had made an appoint- adulteress, though she has married another
man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have
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ment together to come and mourn with him, become dead to the law through the body of
and to comfort him. And when they raised Christ, that you may be married to another—
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their eyes from afar, and did not recognize to Him who was raised from the dead, that we
him, they lifted their voices and wept; and should bear fruit to God. For when we were
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each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on in the flesh, the sinful passions which were
his head toward heaven. So they sat down aroused by the law were at work in our mem-
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with him on the ground seven days and seven bers to bear fruit to death. But now we have
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nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for been delivered from the law, having died to
they saw that his grief was very great.
what we were held by, so that we should serve
in the newness of the Spirit and not in the old-
Psalm 91:7–13
ness of the letter.
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A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked. 7:6 delivered from the law. Not freedom to
do what God’s law forbids (6:1,15; 8:4; 3:31),
Because you have made the LORD, but freedom from the spiritual liabilities and
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who is my refuge, penalties of God’s law. Because we died in
Even the Most High, your dwelling Christ when He died, the law with its condem-
place, nation and penalties no longer has jurisdic-
10 No evil shall befall you, tion over us (vv. 1–3). serve. This is the verb
Nor shall any plague come near your form of the word for “bondservant,”but here it
dwelling; is parallel to being slaves of righteousness
For He shall give His angels charge
11 (6:22),emphasizing that this service is not vol-
over you, untary.Not only is the believer able to do what
To keep you in all your ways. is right, he will do what is right. the newness
12 In their hands they shall bear of the Spirit. A new state of mind which the
you up, Spirit produces, characterized by a new desire
Lest you dash your foot against and ability to keep the law of God. oldness of
the letter. The external, written law code that
a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and produced only hostility and condemnation.
the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
shall trample underfoot. Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not
have known sin except through the law. For I
Proverbs 22:13–14
would not have known covetousness unless
The lazy man says, “There is a lion the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But
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outside! sin, taking opportunity by the commandment,
I shall be slain in the streets!” produced in me all manner of evil desire. For
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