New American Standard Bible 1995
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 I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my 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 8:26In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
- 1 Kings 8:38whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I dissolve my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalms 77:3When I remember God, then I am disturbed; When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.
- Psalms 119:20My soul is crushed with longing After Your ordinances at all times.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have come upon me, Yet Your commandments are my delight.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord.
- Ezekiel 9:4The Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.”
- Matthew 5:4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself!
- Revelation 21:4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
- Deuteronomy 22:26But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
- Psalms 71:11Saying, “God has forsaken him; Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to deliver.”
- Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help, The afflicted also, 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
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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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