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?
• New King James Version (NKJV)O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Context of Romans 7:24

22For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve 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 8:26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
• 1 Kings 8:38whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
• Psalms 6:6I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
• Psalms 32:3For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 38:2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
• Psalms 77:3When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
• Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
• Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
• Ezekiel 9:4And the Lord said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."
• Matthew 5:4"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
• Revelation 21:4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
• Deuteronomy 22:26But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,
• Psalms 71:11and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him."
• Psalms 72:12For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has 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