Romans 7:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:7-12

2. The law’s activity 7:7-12Paul wrote that the believer is dead to both sin (Romans 6:2) and the Law (Romans 7:4). Are they in some sense the same? The answer is no (Romans 7:7). The apostle referred to the relationship between sin and the Law in Romans 7:5, but now he developed it more fully. Essentially his argument was that the Law is not sinful simply because it makes us aware of what is sinful (cf. Romans 3:20). The Law is similar to an X-ray machine that reveals a tumor. The machine... read more

John Darby

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

7:7 law (h-8) Or 'the, law [is] sin.' lust; (i-40) Exodus 20:17 . read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

The Inadequacy of the Law to save1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20-21; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter (Romans 7:7-25) he shows that the Law is divine in its character and beneficent in its work, but unable to free a man from the power of sin. Indeed, though not the cause, it is the occasion of sin. But first, in Romans 5:1-6, the statement in Romans 6:14, that Christians are not under law, is enforced and explained. Law... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:7

(7) What shall we say then?—The Apostle had spoken in a manner disparaging to the Law, and which might well give offence to some of his readers. It was necessary to correct this. And so now he proceeds to lay down more precisely in what it was that the Law was defective, and what was its true function and relation to the history and struggles of humanity.In what follows the Apostle speaks throughout in the first person. He is really making a general statement which applies to all mankind; but... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 7:1-25

Romans 7:0 Dr. Marcus Dods wrote at the age of twenty-six: 'Whatever Paul says of the law in the seventh of Romans I have found true of the ministry; no doubt it is holy in itself, but in me it has revealed and excited an amount of sin that has slain me. Other people with stronger natures may have, doubtless have, endured a great deal more, but I could not have endured more misery than I have done since I began to preach.' Early Letters, p. 179. Romans 7:1 Ever since the Epistle to the Romans... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 7:7-25

Chapter 16THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFERomans 7:7-25THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and "excellent mystery," the bridal oneness of Christ and the Church, of Christ and the believer. He has yet to unfold the secrets and glories of the experience of a life lived in the power of that Spirit of whose "newness" he has just spoken. But his last parable has brought him straight to a question... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 7:1-25

CHAPTER 7 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1-3 .) 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4-6 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7-13 .) 4. The Experience of a Believer in Bondage to the Law. (Romans 7:14-24 .) 5. The Triumphant note of Deliverance. (Romans 7:25 .) Romans 7:1-3 The law is now more fully taken up. We have learned before that by the works of the law no man can be justified before God. But when the sinner is justified by... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 7:7

7:7 {4} What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known {o} lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.(4) An objection: What then? Are the law and sin the same thing, and do they agree together? No, he says: sin is reproved and condemned by the law. But because sin cannot abide to be reproved, and was not in a manner felt until it was provoked and stirred up by the law, it takes occasion by this to be more outrageous,... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

Change of "Husbands" But a Struggle for Freedom In Romans 7:1-25 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and desiring good - while his utter powerlessness to do the good fills him with dismay and wretchedness. His is plainly the case of a soul born of God, for no unbeliever actually hates evil. The new nature in the believer, however, being the very nature of God (2 Peter 1:4) is that which gives... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 7:7-25

VICTORY AND SECURITY That part of chapter 7 on which we now enter is biographical, giving Paul’s experience at a period when, though, regenerated, he was still living under the law and in ignorance of the deliverance to be had in Christ. It is a revelation that the believer possesses two natures that of the first Adam received at his physical birth, and that of the second Adam received in regeneration by the Holy Spirit through faith. The man here described has been baptized into Jesus... read more

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