I thank God
(χαρις τω θεω). "Thanks to God." Note of victory over death through Jesus Christ our Lord."So then I myself
(αρα ουν αυτος εγω). His whole self in his unregenerate state gives a divided service as he has already shown above. In Romans 6:1-7 Paul proved the obligation to be sanctified. In Romans 7:7-8 he discusses the possibility of sanctification, only for the renewed man by the help of the Holy Spirit.
ROMANS 7:25 ca,rij de. tw|/ qew|/ {B} The reading that seems best to account for the rise of the others is ca,rij de. tw|/ qew|/, supported by a1 C2 Y 33 81 88 104 436 2127 _al_. Two Western readings...
Verse Romans 7:25. _I THANK GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST_] Instead of ευχαριστω τῳ Θεῳ, _I thank God_, several excellent MSS., with the _Vulgate_, some copies of the _Itala_, and several of the _father...
I THANK GOD - That is, I thank God for effecting a deliverance to which I am myself incompetent. There is a way of rescue, and I trace it altogether to his mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ. What conscie...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_ 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .) 4. The Experienc...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
We are aware that the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh and blood under the power of sin. I cannot understand what I do. What I want to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. I...
I THANK. Greek. _eucharisteo._ See Acts 27:35. The texts read "Thanks". Compare Romans 6:17. Supply the _Ellipsis_ (App-6), He will deliver me. THROUGH. App-104.Romans 7:1. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. XL...
_I thank God_ Here first _light_is let in; the light of hope. The "redemption of the body" shall come. "He who raised up Christ" shall make the "mortal body" immortally sinless, and so complete the re...
Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in each man, as the law could not do. (7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of sin, as, for instance, co...
24, 25. A parenthetic exclamation, a cry for help, and the answer....
ΧΆΡΙΣ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι. An exclamation—not in construction. For the phrase cf. 1 Corinthians 15:57. ΔΙᾺ Ἰ. Κ.Τ.Λ. Sc. ῥυσθήσομαι or ἐρρύσθην. Law being the bare declaration of right had no power to move...
ΑΎΤΌΣ ΈΓ (G846; G1473) я, сам. ΤΩ — ΝΟΊ _dat. sing. от_ ΝΟΎΣ (G3563) ум; _dat._ ссылки (BD, 105)....
DISCOURSE: 1855 PAUL’S SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS Romans 7:24. _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord_. THE Epistle to the Rom...
I THANK GOD, &C.— The Clermont and other Greek MSS. which are followed by the Vulgate, read, _The grace,_ or _favour of God._ Thus stands the argument—the law cannot deliver from the body of death; th...
_TEXT_ Romans 7:13-25. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;that through the comma...
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. I THANK GOD, [ eucharistoo (G2168)] - or (according to the rather...
__ Conciliation-Individual 13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good, involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause of death. But such is not the cas...
7:25 serve (c-16) i.e. serve as bondman....
THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter ...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25 1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6 V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
(14-25) Further and detailed proof why it was that though the Law appealed to all that was best in man, still he could not obey it....
It _has_ been released. It is Jesus our Lord to whom the thanks and praise are due. Though without His intervention there can only be a divided service. The mere human self serves with the mind the la...
CHAPTER 16 THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans 7:7 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
The last section of the chapter confirms the argument in which Paul has vindicated the law, by exhibiting the power of sin in the flesh. It is this which makes the law Weak, and defeats its good inten...
The exclamation of thanksgiving shows that the longed-for deliverance has actually been achieved. The regenerate man's ideal contemplation of his pre-Christian state rises with sudden joy into a decla...
THE CONFLICT WITHIN Romans 7:14 The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been revealed to it as the norm and...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
I (e) thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I (f) myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (e) He recovers himself, and shows us that he rests only in...
SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN. Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.) The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having involved man in death (Romans 7...
It is from this Romans 7:14 especially that the difference between the two explanations of the passage comes out: that which applies it to the state of man regenerate, and that which regards it as dep...
THIRD CYCLE: ROMANS 7:21-25. This cycle, while repeating the same experiences, stamps them as the abiding and definitive _result_ of the state of things described throughout the whole passage (ἄρα, _c...
“ _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the la...
Of the three readings presented by the documents in the first part of this verse, we must first set aside the Greco-Latin: ἡ χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ, _the grace of God._ This would be the answer to the τίς in...
REFLECTIONS Oh! the blessedness of the marriage state in Christ! If a woman is bound to her husband so long as he liveth, and the husband to his wife; Jesus my husband, my Maker, my Redeemer, ever li...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
_RESTORATION OF FALLEN HUMANITY_ ‘I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I a...
25._I thank God; etc. _He then immediately subjoined this thanksgiving, lest any should think that in his complaint he perversely murmured against God; for we know how easy even in legitimate grief is...
We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
I THANK GOD, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD,.... There is a different reading of this passage; some copies read, and so the Vulgate Latin version, thus, "the grace of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord...
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Ver. 25. _I thank God, &c._] The Grecians being delivered but from b...
_I thank God_, &c. As if he had said, I bemoan myself as above, when I think only of the Mosaic law, the discoveries it makes, the motives it suggests, and the circumstances in which it leaves the off...
I THANK GOD; for his unspeakable gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15; 1 PETER 1:8. There is deliverance-complete, everlasting deliverance from all evil, and all propensity or liability to evil, THROUGH JESUS CHR...
The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
I THANK GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD SO, THEN, WITH THE MIND I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD, BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN. St. Paul now gives an explanation of the peculiar situation which h...
CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and...
__ Romans 7:25. thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then. of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord...
23-25 This passage does not represent the apostle as one that walked after the flesh, but as one that had it greatly at heart, not to walk so. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they a...
I THANK GOD; who hath already delivered me from the slavery and dominion of sin; so that though it wars against me, I still resist it, and, by the strength of Christ, do frequently overcome it, 1 CORI...
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. [Wretched or toil-worn man that I am, living in a state o...
Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection And he immediately adds, clearly showing from what kind of death he desired to be delivered, and who he was who delivered him, "I thank God, through J...
Romans 7:25 thank G2168 (G5719) through G1223 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 our G2257 Lord G2962 then G686...
‘I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself (I as I am in myself) with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.' It is a mistake to see this verse as...
Romans 7:25. I THANK GOD, or, ‘thanks to God;' it being difficult to decide between the two. (Some authorities read: _but_ thanks to God.) This thanksgiving is for deliverance: it is a deliverance THR...
2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_. The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans 7:7), but...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
Romans 7:14 Dualism in the Life. I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms "flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical sense conferred upon them by o...
Romans 7:24 I. The consciousness of sin is so far a universal fact of human nature, that if any one of us is without it, it is because of some disease and defect in his own mind. The conviction of sin...
Romans 7:22 I. When a man begins to hunger and thirst after righteousness, and, discontented with himself, attempts to improve himself, he soon begins to find a painful truth in many a word of the Bib...
This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature. Impossibility of victory through the law. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
THANKS BE TO GOD. He has acted _already_ to set us free! THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! God sets us free through Jesus Christ! _See_ Romans 8:2. THIS, THEN IS MY CONDITION. _By myself -_ without Chris...
TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER? _To the unregenerate.--_ It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and t...
_I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me._ THE INWARD CONFLICT There is no word with which we are more familiar than “conflict.” We see strife everywhere; amongst the e...
_O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?_ SOUL DESPOTISM I. The soul’s oppressive despot. “The body of this death.” What is meant by this? Corrupt animalism. What...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:24 WHO WILL DELIVER ME? The living presence of JESUS CHRIST is the answer to the problem of sin....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:13 Even if the law is not sin (vv. Romans 7:7), is the good law responsible for death? Paul argues that the fault lies with sin, not with the law. Through the law, sin is revea...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:14.—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.” Romans 7:15.—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up, I kno...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 7:1 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels the claims of human law on a person (cf....
Romans chapter 7. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) (Romans 7:1) In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has dominion over a man as long as h...
1 Corinthians 15:57; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 12:10;...
THE INWARD CONFLICT Romans 7:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a husband, is...
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord — That is, God will deliver me through Christ. But the apostle, as his frequent manner is, beautifully interweaves his assertion with thanksgiving;' the hymn...
Here the apostle spies. deliverer, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST; one that had delivered him from the condemning and reigning power of sin, and would ere long deliver him from the presence as well as prevalen...