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 delight in the Torah of God with respect to the inner man, 23but I see a different law in my body parts, battling against the law of my mind and bringing me into bondage under the law of sin which is in my body parts. Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—it is through Messiah Yeshua our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself serve the Torah of God; 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 8:26In the same way, the Ruach helps in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Ruach Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
• 1 Kings 8:38when prayer or supplication is made by anyone or by all Your people Israel—each knowing the plague of his own heart—when one spreads his hands toward this House,
• Psalms 6:6For there is no memory of You in death, in Sheol who will praise You?
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle through my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 38:2Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
• Psalms 77:3In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord. At night my hand stretches out untiringly. My soul refuses to be comforted.
• Psalms 119:20My soul is crushed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your mitzvot are my delight.
• Psalms 130:1A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, Adonai!
• Ezekiel 9:4Adonai said to him, “Go throughout the city, through the midst of Jerusalem. Make a mark on the foreheads of the people who sigh and moan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
• Matthew 5:4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7even in the extraordinary quality of the revelations. So that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me—a a messenger of satan to torment me, so I would not exalt myself.
• Revelation 21:4He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Nor shall there be mourning or crying or pain any longer, for the former things have passed away.”
• Deuteronomy 22:26But to the young woman you are to do nothing—there is no sin in the young woman deserving of death. For this matter is the same as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him—
• Psalms 71:11saying: “God has forsaken him— Pursue and take him, for no one will deliver.”
• Psalms 72:12For he rescues the needy crying for help, also the poor and the one with 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