Romans 7:24

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 in my inner self I delight in God’s law, 23but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.

Romans 7:24 word by word

ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος· τίς με ῥύσεται ἐκ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ θανάτου τούτου;¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Oἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• wretchedταλαίπωροςtalaipōros · wretchedG5005
• that I amἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• whoτίςtis · which?G5101
• shall deliverῥύομαιrhuomai · to rescueG4506
• fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• the bodyὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• ofθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778

Cross-references for Romans 7:24

• Romans 8:26In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.
• 1 Kings 8:38every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have — they each know their own affliction — as they spread out their hands toward this temple,
• Psalms 6:6I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 38:2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
• Psalms 77:3I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah
• Psalms 119:20I am continually overcome with longing for your judgments.
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have overtaken me, but your commands are my delight.
• Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I call to you, Lord!
• Ezekiel 9:4“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”
• Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
• Revelation 21:4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
• Deuteronomy 22:26Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
• Psalms 71:11saying, “God has abandoned him; chase him and catch him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
• Psalms 72:12For he will rescue the poor who cry out and the afflicted who have 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

Topics related to Romans 7:24

• Faith
• Good and Evil
• Justification
• Man
• Regeneration
• Salvation
• Sin
• Stoicism
• Thankfulness
• War

In the dictionaries

• Appear
• Captivity
• Concupiscence
• Condescend
• Consent
• Delight
• Member
• Mind
• Occasion
• Revive

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