Romans 7:24
I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 8:38whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house,
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.
Psalms 88:5cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms 102:20to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →