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Well you can jump to that, but you asked which law Paul was talking about in verses4-6. He gives us an example in the next five verses of which law he was talking about. The example given was one of the TC
I provided a methodical, step by step study here: Well you can jump to that, but you asked which law Paul was talking about in verses4-6. He gives us an example in the next five verses of which law he was talking about. The example given was one of the TC

Again, we need to look at the sum of scripture for truth, not cherry pick soundbites, with bias confirmation, to support our favorite doctrine.
 
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Why cut part of the verse out?
Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek
So that justifies circumcising a Gentile? There are Jews who live all over the world.
 
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I provided a methodical, step by step study here: Well you can jump to that, but you asked which law Paul was talking about in verses4-6. He gives us an example in the next five verses of which law he was talking about. The example given was one of the TC

Again, we need to look at the sum of scripture for truth, not cherry pick soundbites, with bias confirmation, to support our favorite doctrine.
No bais at all, Paul simply carries on from what he was stating in verses4-6
In verse five he states sinfull passions are aroused in us by the law
In verse eight he expounded on this, sin took occasion of one of the TC to arouse all manner of concupiscence/sinfull passions in him
 
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His mother was Jewish and made him Jewish by tradition.
That's Pharisee dogma. I don't subscribe to it. As it is written, dogma was nailed to the pale with Yahshua.

Scripture says that the lineage is through the father.

Which do you subscribe to?
 
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That's Pharisee dogma. I don't subscribe to it. As it is written, dogma was nailed to the pale with Yahshua.

Scripture says that the lineage is through the father.

Which do you subscribe to?
“The Code of Jewish Law clearly states that a child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s lineage (or whatever else may show up in a DNA test), while the child of a non-Jewish mother is not Jewish.1 Matrilineal descent has been a fundamental principle of Torahsince the Jewish people came into existence.”


I guess you need to argue with these people.
 
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If we read down just a little further; Paul starts to pull this thought together.

21 Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me." 22 For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within,

23 yet I am observing a different law in my members, warring with the law of my mind, and leading me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
we know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.''

As you mentioned the above, what law is being transgressed? In what regard is sin being committed?
Is Saul committing murder, adultery, stealing, carving out idols, failing to honour his parents, bearing false witness? Are these the things he cannot stop doing?
Are these the things he is a slave to doing?
Are these the things he hates but continues doing anyway?
Are these the evils that are there with him, that he is a slave to doing?

No! its all about what goes on, on the inside of him, thoughts/desires, coveting! You cannot control your thoughts as easily as you can obey outwardly
A fuller explanation of what he wrote in verses7-11, which is the reason he wrote 4-6
 
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