Romans 7:24

A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.

25I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:38any prayer, any supplication that [is] of any man of all Thy people Israel, who know each the plague of his own heart, and hath spread his hands towards this house,

Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

Psalms 38:8I have been feeble and smitten — unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

Psalms 72:12For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper,

Psalms 88:5Among the dead — free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

Psalms 102:20To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of 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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