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

22I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being. 23However, I see a different standard ⌞at work⌟ throughout my body. It is at war with the standards my mind sets and tries to take me captive to sin’s standards which still exist throughout my body. What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body? 25I thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God’s standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin’s standards with my corrupt nature.

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 8:26At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don’t know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words.
• 1 Kings 8:38⌞hear⌟ every prayer for mercy, made by one person or by all the people in Israel, whose consciences bother them, who stretch out their hands toward this temple.
• Psalms 6:6I am worn out from my groaning. My eyes flood my bed every night. I soak my couch with tears.
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent ⌞about my sins⌟, my bones began to weaken because of my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 38:2Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.
• Psalms 77:3I sigh as I remember God. I begin to lose hope as I think about him. Selah
• Psalms 119:20My soul is overwhelmed with endless longing for your regulations.
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and hardship have found me, but your commandments ⌞still⌟ make me happy.
• Psalms 130:1O Lord, out of the depths I call to you.
• Ezekiel 9:4The Lord said to that person, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan about all the disgusting things that are being done in the city.”
• Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7especially because of the excessive number of revelations that I’ve had. Therefore, to keep me from becoming conceited, I am forced to deal with a recurring problem. That problem, Satan’s messenger, torments me to keep me from being conceited.
• Revelation 21:4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won’t be any more death. There won’t be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared.”
• Deuteronomy 22:26Don’t do anything to the girl. She has not committed a sin for which she deserves to die. This is like the case of someone who attacks and murders another person.
• Psalms 71:11They say, “God has abandoned him. Pursue him and grab him because there is no one to rescue him.”
• Psalms 72:12He will rescue the needy person who cries for help and the oppressed person who has no one’s help.

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