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LIFE AND INCORRUPTION BROUGHT TO LIGHT 97
righteousness that would win divine approval and
God's judgment to eternal life . They thought they
could meet the requirement : "Ye shall therefore
keep my statutes, and mine ordinances ; which if
a man do, he shall live in them : I am Jehovah ."
Leviticus 18 :5, ASV The honest-hearted finally
had to admit that the Law only condemned them,
exposing them as imperfect sinners, and they
came under its curse : "Really I would not have
come to know sin if it had not been for the Law,
and, for example, I would not have known covetousness
if the Law had not said, You must not
covet.' But sin, receiving an inducement through
the commandment, worked out in me covetousness
of every kind, for apart from law sin was
dead. In fact, I was once alive apart from law ;
but when the commandment arrived, sin came to
life again, but I died . And the commandment
which was to life, this I found to be to death . For
sin, receiving an inducement through the commandment,
seduced me and killed me through it ."
God's holy Law was in itself not death to them .
The sin in them, which that Law condemned,
earned death for them. So sin worked their death,
"that sin might become far more sinful through
the commandment."-Romans 7 :7-13, NW.
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Neither can money or wealth buy eternal life
or heaven for any person. Jesus, who did not indulge
in material riches, said : "It will be a difficult
thing for a rich man to get into the kingdom
of the heavens. Again I say to you, It is easier
for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for
9 . As to gaining life, why have the rich no advantage?