romans chapter 7 explained

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? The work of such a person is to make provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof, Romans 13:14. It must be allowed that, whatever was the experience of so eminent a man, Christian, and apostle, as St. Paul, it must be a very proper standard of Christianity. ", And Ovid, Amor. Even the most unconcerned about spiritual things have understanding, judgment, reason, and will. Now I perceive that she is wicked, and I am wretched. Was then that which is good made death unto me? This state of bondage was well known to the Romans. The oldness of the letter - The merely literal rites, ceremonies, and sacrifices are now done away; and the newness of the spirit, the true intent and meaning of all are now fully disclosed; so that we are got from an imperfect state into a state of perfection and excellence. But it seems also consistent with the apostle's meaning, to interpret the place as implying the time in which Paul, in his unconverted Jewish state, had not the proper knowledge of the law - while he was unacquainted with its spirituality. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died; "Commentary on Romans 7:4". 'Twas not enough the good, the guiltless bled. Bibliography InformationClarke, Adam. 21 because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of Yet it is holy, just, and good, Romans 7:12. Note Paul's example when he first came under the law (7:7-11). Wherefore the law is holy - As if he had said, to soothe his countrymen, to whom he had been showing the absolute insufficiency of the law either to justify or save from sin: I do not intimate that there is any thing improper or imperfect in the law as a rule of life: it prescribes what is holy, just, and good; for it comes from a holy, just, and good God. I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate . The italic blue type highlights Scriptures show man under the law. Because the law requires obedience, therefore it will transgress. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. When, therefore, it finds a law which threatens death to the violator of it, it takes occasion thence more earnestly to tempt and allure to the violation of it, that so it may more effectually subject us to death and condemnation on that account; for the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, condemning us to death for transgressing it. He says, αιχμαλωτισθησονται, they shall be led away captives into all the nations, Luke 21:24. He sees then an open door of hope, and he immediately, though but in the prospect of this deliverance, returns God thanks for the well-grounded hope which he has of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. That which is asserted of either the inward or outward man is often performed by one member or power, and not with the whole. Aeneid, lib. It is all the same whether we understand these words as speaking of a law abrogated, so that it cannot command; or of its objects being dead, so that it has none to bind. Now then it is no more I - It is not that I which constitutes reason and conscience, but sin-corrupt and sensual inclinations, that dwelleth in me - that has the entire domination over my reason, darkening my understanding, and perverting my judgment; for which there is condemnation in the law, but no cure. (1-6) The use and excellence of the law. Componens manibusque manus, atque oribus ora; Tormenti genus! - This affecting account is finished more impressively by the groans of the wounded captive. While unregenerate, a man is in a state of death and enmity against God, Romans 8:6-9. This is one of the strongest expressions which the Spirit of God uses in Scripture, to describe the full depravity of fallen man. The truth is, men have confounded the will with the passions, and laid to the charge of the former what properly belongs to the latter. The sale of slaves they saw daily, and could not misunderstand the emphatical sense of this expression. No. of sonship. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. And as Jesus Christ is risen again from the dead, he has thereby given the fullest proof that by his death he has procured the resurrection of mankind, and made that atonement required by the law. Anciently, when regular cartels were not known, the captives became the slaves of their victors, and by them were sold to any purchaser; their slavery was as complete and perpetual as if the slave had resigned his own liberty, and sold himself: the laws of the land secured him to his master; he could not redeem himself, because he had nothing that was his own, and nothing could rescue him from that state but a stipulated redemption. 5 While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our By these different epithets are the unregenerate and regenerate denominated. We see that the law referred to the Gospel, and can only be fulfilled by the Gospel. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 36 As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to 17 So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me. if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live" (v. 13). sees? For, truly, he who sins does not will sin, but wishes to walk uprightly: yet it is manifest that what he wills he doth not; and what he wills not he doth. when he evidently means the whole body of unbelieving Jews. To some parts of it they paid the most superstitious regard. The red type highlights Scriptures showing the effect of grace brought by Jesus Christ on believers. 1832. In Romans 7:14–25, the apostle Paul puts into practical language the fact that he is a redeemed sinner who still has a carnal body, the flesh that wars against the indwelling Spirit. But sin taking occasion, wrought in me by this commandment all manner of concupiscence. Thus he writes in vindication of the law; and yet at the same time shows: It is natural for man to do what is unlawful, and to desire especially to do that which is forbidden. that of the Gospel of Christ, Romans 7:1-4. And a wife is bound to her husband only as long as he lives, Romans 7:2, Romans 7:3. Romans 13:7. Those who … men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of lib. 564. He was still in the flesh: "I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me" (v. 20). The Jew might allege: "But the law is holy and spiritual; and I assent to it as good, as a right rule of action, which ought to be observed; yea, I esteem it highly, I glory and rest in it, convinced of its truth and excellency. . For I know that in me, etc. Complexu in misero, longa sic morte necabat. Send then to the Webmaster. Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? We must therefore understand the phrase, sold under sin, as implying that the soul was employed in the drudgery of sin; that it was sold over to this service, and had no power to disobey this tyrant, until it was redeemed by another. Law is only the means of disclosing; this sinful propensity, not of producing it; as a bright beam of the sun introduced into a room shows; millions of motes which appear to be dancing in it in all directions; but these were not introduced by the light: they were there before, only there was not light enough to make them manifest; so the evil propensity was there before, but there was not light sufficient to discover it. Video meliora, proboque; My reason this, my passion that persuades; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. Thus we find that a case of the kind described by the apostle in the preceding verses, whether it were his own, before he was brought to the knowledge of Christ, particularly during the three days that he was at Damascus, without being able to eat or drink, in deep penitential sorrow; or whether he personates a pharisaic yet conscientious Jew, deeply concerned for his salvation: I say, we find that such a case can be relieved by the Gospel of Christ only; or, in other words, that no scheme of redemption can be effectual to the salvation of any soul, whether Jew or Gentile, but that laid down in the Gospel of Christ. The whole, therefore, may be read thus: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Romans 7:23. Conception takes place when we consent to the desire with our mind – then sin is born. If this were true, Paul would be saying that a Christian is not able to do what is good, being sold under sin. - The first clause of this verse is a general assertion concerning the employment of the person in question in the state which the apostle calls carnal, and sold under sin. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God - That this clause contains the inference from the preceding train of argumentation appears evident, from the αρα ουν, therefore, with which the apostle introduces it. 2 By no means! A married woman is bound to her husband while he lives; but when her husband is dead she is discharged from the law by which she was bound to him alone. In Romans 7 Paul does something similar. Bringing me into captivity to the law of sin - He does not here speak of an occasional advantage gained by sin, it was a complete and final victory gained by corruption; which, having stormed and reduced the city, carried away the inhabitants with irresistible force, into captivity. Romans 7:5 "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." In either case the law has no force. Thus sin, the sting of death, received force or advantage to destroy by the commandment, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:11. This is the consequence of being overcome; he was now in the hands of the foe as the victor's lawful captive; and this is the import of the original word, αιχμαλωτιζοντα, and is the very term used by our Lord when speaking of the final ruin, dispersion, and captivity of the Jews. All is excellent and pure; but it neither pardons sin nor purifies the heart; and it is because it is holy, just, and good, that it condemns transgressors to death. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Romans 7:2.Concrete illustration of the proposition in Romans 7:1, derived from the relation of the law to marriage and its dissolution, which in the woman’s case can only take place through the, death of the husband, so that it is only after that death has occurred that she may marry another. 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. "What!" For, we know that the law is spiritual - This is a general proposition, and probably, in the apostle's autograph, concluded the above sentence. Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or But what I hate, that do I - I am a slave, and under the absolute control of my tyrannical master: I hate his service, but am obliged to work his will. So, these motions which were by the law, became roused into the most powerful activity by the prohibitions of the law. No deliverance from its curse but by Jesus Christ, Romans 7:25. It was often read and expounded in their synagogues: and they took delight in studying its precepts. Illam scelestam esse, et me miserum sentio: Et taedet: et amore ardeo: et prudens, sciens. things to come, nor powers, To which he answers, as usual, μη γενοιτο, by no means. And if a man be actually sold to another, and he acquiesce in the deed, then he becomes the legal property of that other person. the body you will live. From all this it follows that the epithet carnal, which is the characteristic designation of an unregenerate man, cannot be applied to St. Paul after his conversion; nor, indeed, to any Christian in that state. An unworthy act! . There is another circumstance in which his address is peculiarly evident; his demonstrating the insufficiency of the law under color of vindicating it. . In short, the believer ends up in a battle between the “new nature” and the “old nature” and sadly the old nature wins the conflict. 10 But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive the flesh but according to the Spirit. Did work in our members - The evil propensity acts εν τοις μελεσιν, in the whole nervous and muscular system, applying that stimulus to every part which is necessary to excite them to action. Right away we see "sin, finding opportunity in the commandment" (v. 8) caused death. Of this people in their fallen and iniquitous state, God says, by his prophet, They Seek me Daily, and Delight to know my ways, as a nation that did Righteousness, and Forsook not the Ordinances of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of Justice, and Take Delight in approaching to God. The law has power over a man as long as he lives, Romans 7:1. . 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. Some infer this means Paul is now writing about his present conflicts in his Christian life. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction, yet serious Christians find cause to bless God for having thus provided for their support and comfort. He minds the things of the flesh, Romans 8:5; he is at enmity with God. "But does not this arguing destroy the doctrine of free grace?" That the law was insufficient for their justification the apostle had proved, in chapters iii., iv., and v.; that it is insufficient for their sanctification he shows in this chapter; and introduces his discourse by showing that a believing Jew is discharged from his obligations to the law, and is at liberty to come under another and much happier constitution, viz. Sin, taking occasion - Sin, deriving strength from the law, threatening death to the transgressor, (see Clarke's note on Romans 7:8;), deceived me, drew me aside to disobedience, promising me gratification honor, independence, etc., as it promised to Eve; for to her history the apostle evidently alludes, and uses the very same expression, deceived me, εξηπατησε με· See the preceding note; and see the Septuagint, Genesis 3:13. The will, this almost only friend to God in the human soul, has been slandered as God's worst enemy, and even by those who had the seventh chapter to the Romans before their eyes! "We were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work" -- they "were" but are no longer (v. 5). This strange self-contradictory propensity led some of the ancient philosophers to imagine that man has two souls, a good and a bad one; and it is on this principle that Xenophon, in his life of Cyrus, causes Araspes, a Persian nobleman, to account for some misconduct of his relative to Panthea, a beautiful female captive, whom Cyrus had entrusted to his care: - "O Cyrus, I am convinced that I have two souls; if I had but one soul, it could not at the same time pant after vice and virtue; wish and abhor the same thing. See before. And this is the very conclusion to which the apostle brings his argument in the following clause; which, like the rest of the chapter, has been most awfully abused, to favor anti-evangelical purposes. but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin" (vv. The assertion that "every Christian, howsoever advanced in the Divine life, will and must feel all this inward conflict," etc., is as untrue as it is dangerous. seem inconsistent with what he said in chapter 6. The phrase, without the law, sin was dead, means, that sin was then (before the law was given) comparatively dead, as to its power of condemning to death; and this sense the antithesis requires; without the law, ἁμαρτια νεκρα, εγω δε εζων, sin was dead, but I was living; but when the commandment came, (i.e. As if he had said: "To conclude, the sum of what I have advanced, concerning the power of sin in the carnal man, and the utter insufficiency of all human means and legal observances to pardon sin and expel the corruption of the heart, is this: that the very same person, the αυτος εγω, the same I, while without the Gospel, under the killing power of the law, will find in himself two opposite principles, the one subscribing to and approving the law of God; and the other, notwithstanding, bringing him into captivity to sin: his inward man - his rational powers and conscience, will assent to the justice and propriety of the requisitions of the law; and yet, notwithstanding this, his fleshly appetites - the law in his members, will war against the law of his mind, and continue, till he receives the Gospel of Christ, to keep him in the galling captivity of sin and death.". 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, Roasting, burning, racking, crucifying, etc., were nothing when compared to this diabolically invented punishment. H ere is a Romans chapter seven Bible study with commentary. Paul describes his old self: "I am carnal, sold under sin . A man may assent to the best rule of action, and yet still be under the dominion of lust and sin; from which nothing can deliver him but a principle and power proceeding from the fountain of life." How can we who died to sin still live in it? I cannot so it [that is, do good]" (7:14, 15, 18). See Whitby, in loco. "The present tense is thus employed when a past event is viewed with the vividness of a present occurrence." (7:24). . These παθηματα, propensities, constitute the fallen nature; they are the disease of the heart, the pollution and corruption of the soul. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/romans-7.html. A body - a whole mass of sin and corruption, was bound to his soul with chains which he could not break; and the mortal contagion, transfused through his whole nature, was pressing him down to the bitter pains of an eternal death. And of the Jews it is said, in their utmost depravity, Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, Isaiah 50:1. Quae nocuere, sequar; fugiam, quae profore credam. members to bear fruit for death. "The Adam Clarke Commentary". righteousness. To bring forth fruit unto death - To produce those acts of transgression which subject the sinner to death, temporal and eternal. Now hope that is seen is not hope. Can this ever be said of a man in whom the Spirit of God dwells, and whom the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made free from the law of sin and death? That being dead wherein we were held - To us believers in Christ this commandment is abrogated; we are transferred to another constitution; that law which kills ceases to bind us; it is dead to us who have believed in Christ Jesus, who is the end of the law for justification and salvation to every one that believes. ", "The presumptuous human race obstinately rush into prohibited acts of wickedness. 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is "We are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit" (v. 6). 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected As Paul wrote, "The grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men, training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright and godly lives in this world" (Titus 2:11, 12). . your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to In short, the soul seems capable of any thing but knowing, fearing, loving, and serving God. - Or, as long as It liveth; law does not extend its influence to the dead, nor do abrogated laws bind. … Current Chapter: Chapter 7 We may observe in this chapter, I. the Lord Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way, hath sent me unto thee, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Thus, not only the ancients, but also many moderns, have trifled, and all will continue to do so who do not acknowledge the Scriptural account of the fall of man, and the lively comment upon that doctrine contained in the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. "Sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace" (v. 14). it must be destroyed, or it will destroy the soul for ever. Who will deliver me from this body of death? Well, what did we learn? Also, Paul had mentioned again, only a moment earlier, that the law had wrought forth "in our members to bring forth fruit unto death"; and in the next few verses Paul more fully explained what was meant. So then, if, while her husband liveth - The object of the apostle's similitude is to show that each party is equally bound to the other; but that the death of either dissolves the engagement. "If you live according to the flesh you will die . In this and the following verses he states the contrariety between himself, or any Jew while without Christ, and the law of God. The Law, which is to regulate the whole of the outward conduct, is holy; and the Commandment, Thou shalt not covet, which is to regulate the heart, is not less so. There is a personification in the text: sin is, represented as a murderer watching for life, and snatching at every means and embracing every opportunity to carry his fell purpose into effect. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. He felt evil desire, but he did not know the evil of it; he did not consider that the law tried the heart and its workings, as well as outward actions. For without the law, sin was dead - Where there is no law there is no transgression; for sin is the transgression of the law; and no fault can be imputed unto death, where there is no statute by which such a fault is made a capital offense. Wherefore, my brethren - This is a parallel case. "You shall not covet.". It is truly astonishing into what endless mistakes men have fallen on this point, and what systems of divinity have been built on these mistakes. This is the inheritance of God's children; and their salvation is of me, saith the Lord. In Romans chapter 7 the apostle Paul describes the experience that a believer has when they are trying to please God by keeping the Law. Quod licet, ingratum est; quod non licet, acrius urit. How it convinces of sin, and brings into bondage, Romans 7:13-24. And let it be observed, that the law did not answer this end merely among the Jews in the days of the apostle; it is just as necessary to the Gentiles to the present hour. The apostle answers, "No; wickedness is consistent with a sense of truth. it establishes that doctrine. ii. "Vice is provoked by every strong restraint, Sick men long most to drink, who know they mayn't. The expressions, in the flesh, and after the flesh, in Romans 7:5, and in Romans 8:5, Romans 8:8, Romans 8:9, etc., are of the same import with the word carnal in this verse. - Smith, on the carnal man's character. The sentiment in this verse may be illustrated by quotations from the ancient heathens; many of whom felt themselves in precisely the same state, (and expressed it in nearly the same language), which some most monstrously tell us was the state of this heavenly apostle, when vindicating the claims of the Gospel against those of the Jewish ritual! Even Satan himself cannot do this; and before he can get it to sin, he must gain its consent. "Being admonished, he becomes the more obstinate; and his fierceness is irritated by restraints. Our death in Christ “to that which held us captive” and our “serving in the new way of the Spirit” (Romans 7:6) does not mean we never stumble back into experience of captivity. Dr. Taylor contends that all commentators have mistaken the meaning of it, and that it should be rendered having received Force. They forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and Were Sold to do mischief, 1 Maccabees 1:15. Romans 7 – Exposing the Weakness of the Law A. He lives a dying life, or a living death. "Luxury, like a wild beast, is irritated by its very bonds. The strong expressions in this clause have led many to conclude that the apostle himself, in his regenerated state, is indisputably the person intended. God in Christ Jesus our Lord. And it is not only incapable, of itself, for any truly religious acts; but what shows its fall in the most indisputable manner is its enmity to sacred things. The Jew was then alive, because he was not under the law subjecting him to death for his transgressions; but when the commandment came, with the penalty of death annexed, sin revived, and the Jew died. You may print out this article if you wish, but we encourage you to keep this article's source with it (http://www.bibleviews.com/romans7.html) so others can find these studies if they wish. 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? Romans 7:1-6 Released from the Law by Death The Apostle Paul uses the comparison of being married until death parts them and they are legally free to remarry to that of being freed from the law and the penalty of it because “the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives” (Rom 7:1b). those whom he justified he also glorified. Take up and read!”b. The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good, Romans 7:12. 8 But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! 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