American Standard Version
Romans 7:24
24Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Romans 7:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
- New International Version (NIV)What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
- New King James Version (NKJV)O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Context of Romans 7:24
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος· τίς με ῥύσεται ἐκ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ θανάτου τούτου;¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Romans 7:24
- Romans 8:26And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;
- 1 Kings 8:38what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
- Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
- Psalms 77:3I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. [Selah
- Psalms 119:20My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thine ordinances at all times.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 9:4And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
- Matthew 5:4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.
- Revelation 21:4and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
- Deuteronomy 22:26but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;
- Psalms 71:11Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he crieth, And the poor, that hath no helper.
Commentaries on Romans 7:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24O wretched man that I am, etc. - This affecting account is finished more impressively by the groans of the wounded captive. Having long maintained a useless conflict against innumerable hosts and irresistible might, he is at last wounded and taken prisoner; and to render his state more miserable, is not only encompassed by the slaughtered, but chained to a dead body; for there seems to be here an allusion to an ancient custom of certain tyrants, who bound…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24O wretched man that I am! - The feeling implied by this lamentation is the result of this painful conflict; and this frequent subjection to sinful propensities. The effect of this conflict is, (1) To produce pain and distress. It is often an agonizing struggle between good and evil; a struggle which annoys the peace, and renders life wretched. (2) it tends to produce humility. It is humbling to man to be thus under the influence of evil passions. It is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-25Verses 23-25 This passage does not represent the apostle as one that walked after the flesh, but as one that had it greatly at heart, not to walk so. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction, yet serious Christians find cause to bless God for having thus provided for their support and comfort. We are not, because of the abuse of such as are blinded by their own lusts, to find fault with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24this body of death: Sin affects the whole person. It especially shapes how people live and act in the physical world.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?--The apostle speaks of the "body" here with reference to "the law of sin" which he had said was "in his members," but merely as the instrument by which the sin of the heart finds vent in action, and as itself the seat of the lower appetites (see on Ro 6:6, and Ro 7:5); and he calls it "the body of this death," as feeling, at the moment when he wrote, the horrors of that death…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Romans 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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