Romans 7:24

Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this death?

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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

In Context

23but throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body.

25Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of sin.

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Cross References

Psalms 32:3When I held my peace, my bones wore away with my endless groaning;

Psalms 38:8I am utterly crushed and numb; I cry louder than lion roars.

Psalms 72:12For he saves the poor when he cries, the helpless and the downtrodden.

Psalms 88:5My home is among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more cut off as they are from your hand.

Psalms 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are doomed to die;

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 →

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