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Summary: It is very important to understand that when the apostle Paul spoke of being "of flesh, having been sold into bondage to sin" in Rom. 7:14, he was speaking of mankind in Adam (Rom. 5:12-21), not of those who have been born again in Christ. In 1 Cor. 2:14-3:4 Paul sharply insulted large numbers of the Corinthian Christians for their fleshiness: He said they were infants in Christ, fleshly, walking like mere men. And he powerfully warned ministers (and this has a strong application for all Christians) that they must not build with things of the flesh (wood, hay, and straw).
We continue with the eight paragraph double bracket under 1 Cor. 3:1 here in Part 3 of this verse-by-verse study on 1 Corinthians chapters 2 and 3.
The use of this Greek adjective ["sarkinos"] in ROMANS 7:14 is instructive: "For we know that the Law [the Mosaic Law, which was the foundation for the old covenant] is spiritual [in that it cameĀ from God; masculine, singular of the Greek adjective "pneumatikos" that agrees with the masculine, singular Greek noun for "Law," "nomos."], but I am of flesh [[The word "flesh" was translated from the masculine, singular of the Greek adjective "sarkinos." There is no difference in meaning between "of flesh" here in 7:14 and being "in the flesh ["sarks"]" in Rom. 7:5.]], sold [better, "having been sold
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