In a world in which children are both consumers and products, and people are indeed
sold under sin, the confusion of adults is not so different from that of children.
Our dog was a self - willed, disobedient, and unhappy dog, and How to Raise a Puppy rightly makes me feel
convicted under sin.
We live in a world
temporarily under sin due to it being subject to Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer who rebelled against the Father and caused Adam and Eve to sin; whereby, we all have been born into a fallen world and fall short of the glory of God because of it.
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural
bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
If you don't repent your destiny will be all too assured, you will stand self condemned and
remain under sin.
«The law locked up
everything under sin so that the promise based on faith in Christ Jesus might be given to believers» (Gal.
But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
He could identify with St Paul's «I am carnal, sold
under sin.
He concluded that what we would term concupiscence was in fact a manifestation of the totally sinful condition which burdens humanity: «carnal, sold
under sin.»
As Paul says, «We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold
under sin.»
(a) The Law shuts a man up
under sin (Galatians 3:23).
In Romans 3:10 - 13 God had Paul quote some hyperbole (exaggeration) scriptures from the book of Psalms as added proof that both Jews and Greeks «are
all under sin» (Rom 3:9).
In other words, the statement «are
all under sin» is the meaning of the hyperbole quoted in Romans 3:10 - 18.
God did not make us as we currently are but allowed all of us to be shut up
under sin that we may know His love and His salvation.