Romans 7:24
“O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from the body of this death?”
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Romans 7:24 Context
22For I delight in the Lawe of God, after the inward man. 23But I see another Lawe in my members, warring against the Lawe of my minde, and bringing me into captiuity to the Law of sinne, which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from the body of this death? 25I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I my self serue the Law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sinne.
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Other Translations for Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
- King James Version
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
- American Standard Version (1901)
How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
- Basic English Bible
O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
- Darby Bible
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
- Webster's Bible
(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
- Weymouth Bible
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
- World English Bible
Y am an vnceli man; who schal delyuer me fro the bodi of this synne?
- Wycliffe Bible
A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Romans 7:24
7:24 Wretched man that I am - The struggle is now come to the height; and the man, finding there is no help in himself, begins almost unawares to pray, Who shall deliver me? He then seeks and looks for deliverance, till God in Christ appears to answer his question. The word which we translate deliver, implies force. And indeed without this there can be no deliverance. The body of this death - That is, this body of death; this mass of sin, leading to death eternal, and cleaving as close to me as my body to my soul. We may observe, the deliverance is not wrought yet.
People's Bible Notes for Romans 7:24
Ro 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Wretched because he has no power in himself of deliverance. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He is a captive, a captive to the body, the members of which are controlled by sin. Hence, he is a helpless slave of sin, and as such is under the condemnation of death. The body, the seat of the fleshly desires, has become "a body of death", since it is controlled by sin. Who shall deliver him from its power? In Ro 7:14-24 Paul has described the bondage of the will to the flesh which is the condition of the natural man, and closes with the cry for deliverance.