Romans 7:17,Romans 7:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:17

It is no more I that do it - This is evidently figurative language, for it is really the man that sins when evil is committed. But the apostle makes a distinction between sin and what he intends by the pronoun “I”. By the former he evidently means his corrupt nature. By the latter he refers to his renewed nature, his Christian principles. He means to say that he does not approve or love it in his present state, but that it is the result of his native propensities and passions. In his heart, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 7:16-17

Romans 7:16-17. If then I do that which I would not, &c. In willing not to do it, I do so far, though to my own condemnation, consent to the law, and bear my testimony to it that it is good And do indeed desire to fulfil it; though when temptations assault me, contrary to my resolution, I fail in my practice. This is an inference from the former verse, the obvious sense of which is, that men, even in an unconverted state, approve of the law of God: they see its propriety and equity,... 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 7:17

Now then = But now. no more = no longer. Greek. ouketi. sin . . . me = the indwelling sin ( App-128 .) dwelleth . Greek. oikeo . Here, verses: Rom 18:20 ; Romans 8:9 , Rom 8:11 -. 1 Corinthians 3:16 ; 1 Corinthians 7:12 , 1Co 7:13 ; 1 Timothy 6:16 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:17

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.In using the conscience of the inner man to affirm the justice of the law, Paul raised another problem which Barrett paraphrased thus:We find man in a state of rebellion against God, and under sentence of death. For this unhappy situation, the law is not to blame; but neither, it now appears, am "I," for I agree with the law and disapprove of the sins I commit. Who then is to blame?[17]Paul answered that problem by stating that it... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:17

Romans 7:17. Sin that dwelleth in me— That is, reigneth in me. So God is said to dwell among the Israelites, as their king and governor; Exodus 25:8; Exodus 29:45.Numbers 35:34; Numbers 35:34. Dwell, here and Rom 7:20 has the same sense in the language of the Jew, as reign or have dominion over, in the language of the Gentile; chap. Romans 6:12-14. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:17

17. Now then it is no more I—my renewed self. that do it—"that work it." but sin which dwelleth in me—that principle of sin that still has its abode in me. To explain this and the following statements, as many do (even BENGEL and THOLUCK), of the sins of unrenewed men against their better convictions, is to do painful violence to the apostle's language, and to affirm of the unregenerate what is untrue. That coexistence and mutual hostility of "flesh" and "spirit" in the same renewed man, which... 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 7:17

Rather his problem was traceable to the sin that dwelt within him, namely, his sinful nature. Paul was not trying to escape responsibility but was identifying the source of his sin, his sinful nature. "I" describes the new man Paul had become at his conversion (Galatians 2:20). Viewed as a whole person he was dead to sin. Nevertheless the source of sin within him was specifically his sinful human nature that was still very much alive.It comes as a terrible discovery for a new believer, or an... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 7:17

7:17 do (a-9) See Note, ver. 15. read more