Bible Dictionary: The Law of God: Gives the Knowledge of Sin

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.
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"For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus Hath Made Me ...
... And thus sin hath a kind of law over us ... God gives us over to iniquity and
unrighteousness, and we yield ... up ourselves, and join to our idols, and God ratifies ...
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The Spirit of the Law
... hearted, and whole-souled love of God is not attained even by those who love Him
most. Paul's position that the law gives the knowledge of sin, just because it ...
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The Favourable Testimonies of More Recent Divines
... this ignorance, he sends forth his law, and gives us to ... The grace of God through
Jesus Christ."(Ibid.) After the ... the power and efficacy of the law, which works ...
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The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects
... at first only says that he has received 'a book.' He gives it no ... The effect of God's
law on the sinful heart is vividly pictured in Josiah's ... 'By the law is the ...
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Josiah and the Newly Found Law
... The straightforward story of our passage gives a most natural ... No man rightly uses
God's law who is not convinced by ... The first function of the law is to arouse ...
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The True Excellence of Man.
... when you have taken away that which gives rise to ... is it said, "Thou shall love the
Lord thy God with all ... Wherefore the law is productive of the emotion of fear ...
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Law and Grace.
... Grace beseeches men by the mercies of God. The Law demands holiness. Grace gives
holiness. The Law says"Condemn him. Grace says"Embrace him. ...
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The Knowledge of God Conspicuous in the Creation, and Continual ...
... Bright, however, as is the manifestation which God gives both of himself and his ...
all are guilty who have not been taught out of the law who the God is whom ...
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The Great Privilege of those that are Born of God
... interrupted the light and voice, the knowledge and love ... of the Gentiles," " not
regarding the ceremonial law of Moses ... (3.) The Spirit of God gives him warning ...
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The Epistle to the Romans.
... It gives the clearest and fullest exposition of the ... of eternal foreknowledge and
foreordination and God's gracious designs ... Rom.3:9). Through the law cometh the ...
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