Romans 7:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:15

For that which I do - That is, the evil which I do, the sin of which I am conscious, and which troubles me.I allow not - I do not approve; I do not wish it; the prevailing bent of my inclinations and purposes is against it. Greek, “I know not;” see the margin. The word “know,” however, is sometimes used in the sense of approving, Revelation 2:24, “Which have not known (approved) the depths of Satan;” compare Psalms 101:4, I will not know a wicked person.” Jeremiah 1:5.For what I would - That... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 7:15

Romans 7:15 . For that which I do Greek, κατεργαζομαι , what I thoroughly work, the word signifying earnestness and perseverance in working till the work in which the agent is employed is finished. It is therefore used by the apostle to denote the continued employment of God’s people in his service unto the end of their lives; Philippians 2:12, Work out your own salvation. That is, as you have, in time past, laboured to serve God in all things, so persevere in that service to the end.... 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 7:15

do . Same as work, verses: Romans 8:13 . allow = approve. The same as know, verses: Romans 7:1 ; Rom 7:-7 . what, &c . = not what I wish, this I practice. would . App-102 . 1, Note the use of thelo , on the fight side, seven times in verses: Romans 7:15-21 . that . . . not = this do I practice (Greek. prasso . See 2 John 1:5; 2 John 1:52 John 1:5 :29 ). that do I = this I do (Greek. poieo) . There are three Greek. words in this verse for "do". The first is katergazomai, work out,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:15

For that which I do I know not; for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.Perhaps the RSV is nearest the true meaning of this first clause with "I do not understand my own actions." Phillips has "My own behaviour baffles me"; and the New English Bible (1961) translates, "I do not even acknowledge my own actions as mine." The second and third clauses mean that under the law of Moses, wherein was no promise of forgiveness and no impartation of the Holy Spirit, the best... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:15

Romans 7:15. That which I do, I allow not, &c.— From Rom 7:7 to the present, the Apostle denotes the Jew in the flesh by a single I. Here he divides that I into two I's, or figurative persons, representing two different and opposite principles which were in him. The one I, or principle, assents to the law as good, and wills and chooses what the other does not practise, Romans 7:16. This principle, he expressly tells us, Rom 7:22 is the inward man,—the law of the mind, Romans 7:23.; the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:15

15, 16. For, c.—better, "For that which I do I know not" that is, "In obeying the impulses of my carnal nature I act the slave of another will than my own as a renewed man?" for, &c.—rather, "for not what I would (wish, desire) that do I, but what I hate that I do." 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:15

Paul’s sinful human nature influenced him to such an extent that he found himself volitionally doing (approving) the very things that he despised intellectually. This caused him to marvel. All Christians can identify with him in this. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 7:15

7:15 do, (p-5) 'Work out to a result.' same word as 'wrought' in ver. 8 and 'working' in ver. 13. read more

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