Romans 7:24

Wretched man am I! Who will deliver me from the body of this mavet (death)?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23But I see another gezetz (law) in my natural capacities at milchamah (war) with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Gezetz of Chet (Sin) which is [a power] in my natural capacities.

25Hodu l' Hashem (thanks be to G-d) b'Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem and with my basar I serve the Gezetz of Chet (the Law of Sin). + 7:25 The total spiritual turn-around here described is when the conviction of the intellect, emotion, and will “obey from the heart the form of doctrine laid out here in Scripture” as we are born anew in the humanity of the new Man and die to the old depraved Adam

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:38What tefillah and techinnah be made by any adam, or by all Thy people Yisroel, which shall know every man the nega of his own levav, and spread forth his palms toward this Bayit;

Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, + 32:3 i.e., refused to confess my sin, which was still naked and uncovered (see 32:1 ) and had no kapporah covering for my guilt before G-d my atzmot wasted away 1 through my groaning kol hayom (all the day). 1

Psalms 38:8For my loins are filled with burning; 1 and there is no health in my basar. 1

Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the evyon (needy) when he crieth; 1 the oni (poor, afflicted) also, and him that hath no ozer (helper). 1

Psalms 88:5I am counted with them that go down into the bor (pit); 1 I am like a gever (man) that hath no strength; 1

Psalms 102:20For He hath looked down from the height of His Kodesh; 1 from Shomayim did Hashem behold Eretz; 1

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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