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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

23Chapter 15JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFERomans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle’s thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought us to self-surrender. We have seen the sacred obligations of our divine and wonderful liberty. We have had the miserable question, "Shall we cling to sin?" answered by an explanation of the rightness and the bliss of giving over our accepted persons, in the fullest liberty of will, to God, in... 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 7:1

7:1 Know {1} ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?(1) By expounding the similitude of marriage, he compares together the state of man both before and after regeneration. The law of matrimony, he says, is this, that as long as the husband lives, the marriage remains binding, but if he is dead, the woman may marry again. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 7:3

7:3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be {a} called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.(a) That is, she will be an adulteress, by the consent and judgment of all men. 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 7:1-6

HUMANITY AND TWO ADAMS “Wherefore” leads back to chapter 3, where the apostle is referring to the sinful condition of all men. It was by one man that sin entered the world bringing physical death as a penalty, and that all have sinned is proven by the fact that all have paid that penalty (Romans 5:12 ). To be sure the law was not given to Moses till Sinai, but as “death reigned from Adam to Moses,” it is evident that there was a transgression of another law than that written on stone, for... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 7:1

CONTENTS Under the Similitude of the Marriage State, the Apostle in the opening of this Chapter, represents the Power of the Law, over a Man that is wedded to the Law, as long as he liveth. But as in the Married State, the Death of one of the Parties destroys that Law; so Christ hath delivered his Church. The Apostle closeth the Chapter, in an affecting Representation of the workings of Sin in the Flesh. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. (3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1

As long as it liveth; or, as long as he liveth. (Challoner) --- This seems the literal construction, rather than as long as he, the man, liveth. For St. Paul here compares the law (which in the Greek is in the masculine gender) to the husband, whom a wife cannot quit, nor be married to another, as long as the husband liveth, without being an adulteress: but if the husband be dead, (as the law of Moses is now dead, and no longer obligatory after the publishing of the new law of Christ) the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-6

1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, can make any sinner free from the law of sin and death. Believers are delivered from that power of the law, which condemns for the sins committed by them. And they are delivered from that power of the law which stirs up and provokes the sin that dwells in them. Understand this not of the law as a... read more