Indeed - irrefutable.
[FONT="]Rom 3:
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, [FONT="]that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world[/FONT][FONT="] may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for[/FONT][FONT="] by the law is the knowledge of sin[/FONT][FONT="].
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being [/FONT][FONT="]witnessed by the Law and the Prophets[/FONT][FONT="],
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(So then the moral law of God is being affirmed by all of scripture "the Law and the Prophets")
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31[/FONT][FONT="]Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.[/FONT][FONT="]
Which I think even you will admit is not simply the Psalms - but the TEN Commandments written on stone the "LAW of death" as Paul calls it in 2Cor 3.
2 Cor 3
7 But if the [/FONT][FONT="]ministry of death, written and engraved on stones[/FONT][FONT="], was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away[/FONT]
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Rom 7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.[/FONT][/FONT]
"law word"??
This is more than "law word" -- it is - Bible text pointing out that the Law of God defines what sin is [FONT="]by the law is the knowledge of sin[/FONT]
And it condemns all the world -
And of course "Sin IS transgression of the Law" 1John 3:4
[FONT="]Rom 7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Rom 3:
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, [FONT="]that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world[/FONT][FONT="] may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for[/FONT][FONT="] by the law is the knowledge of sin[/FONT][FONT="].
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being [/FONT][FONT="]witnessed by the Law and the Prophets[/FONT][FONT="],
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"the law word"????
All the world condemned under sin - by that LAW
"the wages of sin is death" therefore the LAW is the ministry of death to all that have not yet accepted the Gospel.
[FONT="]2 Cor 3
7 But if the [FONT="]ministry of death, written and engraved on stones[/FONT][FONT="], was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away
[FONT="][FONT="]And that Law is written on[FONT="] tablets of stone.
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Paul speaks about the Law - so also do many texts in the "Law and the Prophets" - but Passover does not condemn all the world for violation of it.
The Moral LAW of God - does.
And Paul is specific that this Law that condemns is written on stone.
It is the same law then that we "ESTABLISH" in Rom 3:31 "Do we then make void the LAW by our faith? God forbid! in fact we ESTABLISH the LAW"
The context for LAW in Rom 3 - is that LAW which condemns all the world - and that defines exactly what sin is --
in Christ,
Bob