Romans 7:24

Wretched, man am, I! Who shall rescue me out of this body doomed to death?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members:—

25[But] thanks be unto God!—Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Hence, then,—I myself, with the mind, indeed, am in servitude unto a law of God; but; with the flesh; unto a law of sin.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:38any prayer, any supplication which, any son of earth, may have, of all thy people Israel,—who will certainly know every man the plague of his own heart, and so he shall spread abroad his hands towards this house,

Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

Psalms 38:8I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly,—I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

Psalms 72:12Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;

Psalms 88:5Among the dead, is my couch,—Like the slain that lie in the grave, Where thou rememberest them no more, Yea, they, from thy hand, are cut off;

Psalms 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were 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 →

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