Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Romans 7:16
But the fact that I desire to do what is right is itself a witness to the excellence of the Law, which commands that which I desire.
But the fact that I desire to do what is right is itself a witness to the excellence of the Law, which commands that which I desire.
Verse Romans 7:16. _IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT_, c.] Knowing that the law condemns it, and that therefore it must be _evil_. _I consent unto the law_ I show by this circumstance that I acknow...
I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW - The very struggle with evil shows that it is not loved, or approved, but that the Law which condemns it is really loved. Christians may here find a test of their piety. The fa...
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...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
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...
IF... NOT. But if what. do not wish, this. do. IF. App-118. CONSENT. Greek. _sumphemi._ Only here....
_If then_, &c. The emphasis is obviously on "that which I would not:" q. d., "If my faulty course of action is contradicted by my will, I thereby consent to the goodness of the Law, which also contrad...
E. THE STATE DESCRIBED IN Ch. Romans 7:14-24 The controversy over this profound passage is far too wide to allow of full treatment here. It is scarcely needful to say that conclusions very different...
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...
ΣΎΜΦΗΜΙ (G4852) _praes. ind. act._ говоритьс кем-л., соглашаться, принимать....
_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...
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT - `If what I would not, that I do,' I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD - the...
__ 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...
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...
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...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought...
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...
ὃ οὐ θέλω takes up ὃ μισῶ the negative expression is strong enough for the argument. In doing what he hates, _i.e._, in doing evil against his will, his will agrees with the law, that it is good. καλό...
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...
“ _If then I do that which I would not, I consent with the law that it is good. And now it is no more I that perform it, but sin that dwelleth in me._ ” These two verses draw the conclusion from the...
VV. 16 likewise reproduces the second part of Romans 7:14; it is, so to speak, the paraphrase of the words: _sold to sin._ It is not to be thought that Paul wishes to exculpate himself in the least wh...
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...
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...
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...
16._But if what I desire not, I do, I consent to the law, etc._; that is, “When my heart acquiesces in the law, and is delighted with its righteousness, (which certainly is the case when it hates the...
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...
IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT,.... This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experience; that since what he did, though it was contrary to the law of God, yet was...
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that _it is_ good. Ver. 16. _I consent unto the law_] I vote with it, and for it, as the rule of right; I wish also well to the observance...
_If then I do that which I would not_, &c. In willing not to do it, I do so far, though to my own condemnation, _consent to the law_, and bear my testimony to it _that it is good_ And do indeed desire...
I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW; by disapproving and hating all violations of it, and condemning myself on account of them, I show that I approve the law as wise, holy, just, and good....
The practical effect of this teaching:...
IF, THEN, I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT, I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD....
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...
BUT IF WHAT. WOULD NOT, THAT. DO,. CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD. "I CONSENT" -"I agree with the Law" (NASV); Lit., to speak together with; concur with (Vincent p. 81) This isn't. depraved pers...
14-17 Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection, that he seemed to be carnal; like a man who is sold against his will to a ha...
This very thing is an argument, that the law is such as I have before asserted, ROMANS 7:12,14. This shows my consent to the holiness and goodness of the law; I vote with it, and for it, as the only r...
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. [But the law can not be sin, for it is spiritual; i. e., it is of divine origin, contains divine principles, and is addresse...
Romans 7:16 If G1487 then G1161 do G4160 (G5719) what G5124 G3739 will G2309 (G5719) not...
‘But if what I would not, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.' ‘Thus', says Paul, ‘if I at times do what I in my mind do not want to do, doing what I know to be contrary to God's Law, but...
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...
Romans 7:16. BUT IF. This verse is a logical inference from the position of Romans 7:15. It is, however, the logic of a Christian applied to the condition under the law, or it may mark an advanced ste...
I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW (συνφημ τω νομω). Old verb, here only in N.T., with associative instrumental case. "I speak with." My wanting (θελω) to do the opposite of what I do proves my acceptance of G...
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...
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...
Romans 7:1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
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...
WHEN I DO WHAT I DON'T WANT TO DO. He knows that sin is wrong, yet he goes on sinning (_compare_ 1 John 1:8-10). The fact that he doesn't want to sin shows he agrees that the Law is right in its comma...
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...
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...
Psalms 119:127; Psalms 119:128; Romans 7:12; Romans 7:14; Romans 7:2
I consent [σ υ μ φ η μ ι]. Lit., speak together with; concur with, since the law also does not desire what I do. Only here in the New Testament. Good [κ α λ ο ς]. See on John 10:11; John 10:32; Matthe...
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...
It is good — This single word implies all the three that were used before, Romans 7:12, "holy, just, and good....
Note, 1. How readily the apostle consented to the equity and holiness of God's law; he did love the law of God, which made holiness his duty: I CONSENT, says he, TO THE LAW, THAT IT IS GOOD; he assent...