Romans 7:24

O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 law in my members, which warreth against the law of my conscience, and maketh me a captive to the law of sin which existeth in my members

25I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah I shall be rescued. [ (Romans 7:26) Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin.]

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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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