Romans 7:13-8:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:13

Was then that which is good ... - This is another objection which the apostle proceeds to answer. The objection is this, “Can it be possible that what is admitted to be good and pure, should be changed into evil? Can what tends to life, be made death to a man?” In answer to this, the apostle repeats that the fault was not in the Law, but was in himself, and in his sinful propensities.Made death - Romans 7:8, Romans 7:10.God forbid - Note, Romans 3:4.But sin - This is a personification of sin as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 7:12-13

Romans 7:12-13. Wherefore Since then, by what has been said, it appears that the law is not the cause of sin or death, except indirectly and by accident, it must be acquitted from this charge, and acknowledged to be holy; and the commandment The preceptive part of the moral law, and every particular precept of it; is holy, just, and good It springs from and partakes of the holy nature of God; tends only to promote holiness and a conformity to God, and prescribes our duty to God in his... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1-25

The law cannot help (7:1-25)Through Christ, believers have not only died to sin, they have died to the law also, which means that their lives are now different. Paul gives an example. If a husband dies, the wife is no longer bound to him and is free to marry again. Likewise believers have died to the law so that the bond between them and the law is broken. However, they have been raised to new life and are now united to another, the living Christ (7:1-4). Formerly, they found that the more the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 7:13

Was . . . made . Did, then, that which is good become. But = Nay! appear = be seen to be. App-106 . working = working out. See Romans 1:27 . in . Dative case. No preposition. exceeding . Greek. kath ' ( App-104 ) huperbolen . sinful . Greek. hamartolos. So translated in Mark 8:38 . Luke 5:8 ; Luke 24:7 . Elsewhere, "sinner". Compare App-128 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:13

Did then that which is good become death to 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 commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.Here again, as often in Romans, the old diatribe style of discourse is followed, the objection Paul addressed being this: "Paul, you have praised the law as righteous and good; but since it has brought death, how can you say it is good?" Paul's answer was his favorite "God... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:13

Romans 7:13. Was then that which is good, &c.— This is an exact translation of the text, according to the order of the words in the Greek. It may be thus paraphrased: Jew.—"And yet you say, we were made subject to death by the commandment.—Could that which is good be made deadly to us?" Apostle.—"No, take me right: it was not the commandment itself which slew us, but sin. It was sin which subjected us todeath, by the law justly threatening sin with death:—which law was given us, that sin... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:13

13. Was then that which is good made—"Hath then that which is good become" death unto me? God forbid—that is, "Does the blame of my death lie with the good law? Away with such a thought." But sin—became death unto me, to the end. that it might appear sin—that it might be seen in its true light. working death in—rather, "to" me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful—"that its enormous turpitude might stand out to view, through its turning God's holy,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:13

Paul next explained the Law’s relationship to death. The responsibility for death belongs to sin, not the Law (cf. Romans 6:23). Sin’s use of something good, the Law, to bring death shows its utter sinfulness (cf. Genesis 3:1). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:13-25

3. The law’s inability 7:13-25In Romans 7:13-25 Paul continued to describe his personal struggle with sin but with mounting intensity. The forces of external law and internal sin (i.e., his sinful nature) conflicted. He found no deliverance from this conflict except through the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 7:25). Many students of this passage, including myself, believe what Paul was describing here was his own personal struggle as a Christian to obey the law and so overcome the promptings of his... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 7:13

7:13 working (l-22) Or 'working out.' read more

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