Romans 7:24

I am a miserable man! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Unlocked Literal 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 a different principle in my body parts. It fights against that new principle in my mind. It takes me captive by the principle of sin that is in my body parts.

25But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the principle of sin.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:38and suppose then that prayers and requests are made by a person or by all your people Israel—each knowing the plague in his own heart as he spreads out his hands toward this temple.

Psalms 32:3When I remained silent, my bones were wasting away 1 while I groaned all day long. 1

Psalms 38:8I am numb and utterly crushed; 1 I groan because of the anguish of my heart. 1

Psalms 72:12For he helps the needy person who cries out 1 and the poor person who has no other helper. 1

Psalms 88:5I am abandoned among the dead; 1 I am like the dead who lie in the grave, 1 about whom you care no more 1 because they are cut off from your power. 1

Psalms 102:20to hear the groaning of the prisoners, 1 to release those who were condemned to death. 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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