How do you reconcile these two passages? One says the old things have passed away, and the other says that sin still lives within.
FW_KeyboardMan ------your scriptures you Quoted are addressing 2 separate Issues
I say --------It is very hard to reconcile Scripture by just using 1 or 2 verses ---you need to read the Chapter and find out what the Context is of that piece of scripture as Scripture will always answer Scripture --------
In Romans Paul is speaking about the Law and how we are Released from the death of the Law -----
The law was given to increase sin an to show the Israelite's that they needed a Saviour -----
the wages of Sin is eternal death
The Israelite's were disobeying God and they themselves ask for some rules to follow and God gave then the 10 Commandments t
hat no man could keep ----so the Curse was in place ----there was no Blessings in place -as no man could keep any of the laws ---the law brought Spiritual death -----before the law was given there was a chance for eternal life -----after the law all were under the curse of the law ----- Jesus came to release us from the Curse of the laws by keeping it ---Jesus is the only one who kept all 613 laws -----and by that released us from the curse after he died
In 2 Cotinthians ----Paul is addressing our
Reconciliation back to God -----
When we receive Jesus as our Lord ---we are Adapted back into God's family Spiritually -------our SPIRIT ONLY is renewed and we are now ready for Spiritual life instead of death -------WE Still are in the Flesh and so we still have the Nature to sin and WE WILL SIN _____but God does not Charge Sin to us any more ------
You may not know but there are 2 deaths for unbelievers ---Physical death and then Spiritual death which is eternal separation from God forever -------believers die physically and are with God in His Spiritual realm ----
2 Corinthians 5 -------Verse 19 ------
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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Our SPIRIT MAN is HOLY ---SANCTIFIED we are heaven bound ---our Past --Present and Future sins are forgiven by God -------
We will have our Sin Nature till we die -----but we have now Grace who is Jesus to call on to give us strength to resist the sin -----Satan is still god of this world and is able to tempt us into sin but the more you mature in Christ the less you will sin as you want to please God and will do all you can not to sin ---------Read the 2 scriptures you quoted ------below
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Romans 7 NIV
Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[
a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[
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8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting.
For apart from the law, sin was dead.
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Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means!
Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
!5 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.
2 Corinthians 5 NIV
The Ministry of Reconciliation
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[
b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Hope this helps some for clarification -------