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 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 according to the inward man. 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the 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 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
• 1 Kings 8:38whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:
• Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
• Psalms 38:2For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
• Psalms 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah
• Psalms 119:20My soul breaks with longing For Your judgments at all times.
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.
• Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord;
• Ezekiel 9:4and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
• Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
• Revelation 21:4And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
• Deuteronomy 22:26But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.
• Psalms 71:11Saying, “God has forsaken him; Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”
• Psalms 72:12For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor 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

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