Romans 8:2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
The law of sin and death is not a reference to the Law of Moses. In the book of Romans there are many references to the Law of Moses, but Romans 8:2 is not one of them.
Earlier Paul tells us that the Law of Moses was “holy, just and good” (Rom 7:12) and he denies that the law is sin (Rom 7:7). Therefore in Romans 8:2 he cannot be referring to the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments as the “law of sin and death.”
No, the law of sin and death is the relentless tendency in human nature to do wrong. Paul tells us that it is the sin which dwells in our flesh, in our “members,” that produces death, and it is when the flesh interacts with the commandment that the sin that dwells in our fleshly nature is incited and inflamed. (Rom 7:7, 13, 17-18, 20, 23-24). That’s why 1 Corinthians 15:56 tells us that “the strength of sin is the law.”
The law of sin and death is a law in the sense that it is a principle that works against us every time, all the time, unless a superior, overriding law or principle intervenes.
Thank God for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus!! It overrides and overcomes the law of sin and death in our members!!