Romans 7:1-25 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (Rom. 6:14), that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (Rom. 7:6): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are delivered from the power of the law which curses and condemns us for the sin committed by us. The... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:7-13

To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Isa. the law sin? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experience the great excellency and usefulness of the law, not as a covenant, but as a guide; and further... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:14-25

Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:?1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other apprehend. And a great controversy there is of which of these we are to understand the apostle here.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:1-6

7:1-6 You are bound to know, brothers--for I speak to men who know what law means--that the law has authority over a man only for the duration of his life. Thus, a married woman remains bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but, if her husband dies, she is completely discharged from the law concerning her husband. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man while her husband is still alive; but, if her husband dies, she is free from the law, and she... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:7-13

7:7-13 What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, "You must not covet." For, when sin had, through the commandment, obtained a foothold, it produced every kind of desire in me; for, without law, sin is lifeless. Once I lived without the law; but, when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, and in that moment I knew that I had incurred... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:14-25

7:14-25 We are aware that the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh and blood under the power of sin. I cannot understand what I do. What I want to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. If what I do not want to do I in point of fact do, then I acquiesce in the law, and I agree that it is fair. As it is, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin which resides in me--I mean in my human nature. To will the fair thing is within my range, but not to do it. For I do not do the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1

Know ye not, brethren ,.... The apostle having asserted, Romans 6:14 , that the believing Romans were "not under the law"; which he knew would be displeasing to many, and excepted to by them, especially the Jews that were among them, who though they believed in Christ, yet were zealous of the law, takes it up again, and explains and defends it. That they were the Jewish converts at Rome he here particularly addresses, appears partly from his calling them "brethren", for they were so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:2

For the woman which hath an husband ,.... The former general rule is here illustrated by a particular instance and example in the law of marriage; a woman that is married to a man, is bound by the law to her husband ; to live with him, in subjection and obedience to him, so long as he liveth ; except in the cases of adultery, Matthew 19:9 , and desertion, 1 Corinthians 7:15 , by which the bond of marriage is loosed, and for which a divorce or separation may be made, which are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:3

So then if while her husband liveth ,.... True indeed it is, that whilst her husband is alive, if she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress ; she will be noted and accounted of as such everybody, except in the above mentioned cases: but if her husband be dead ; then there can be no exception to her marriage: she is free from the law ; of marriage, by which she was before bound: so that she is no adulteress ; nor will any reckon her such; she is clear... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also ,.... Here the apostle accommodates the foregoing instance and example to the case in hand, showing, that the saints were not under the law, the power and dominion of it; since that, as when a man is dead, the woman is loosed from that law by which she was bound whilst he lived, that she may lawfully marry another man, and bear children to him without the imputation of adultery; so believers being dead to the law, and the law dead to them, which is all one,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:7-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 7:14-25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:1-6

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:7-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 7:14-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 7:4

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