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Verse Romans 7:15. _FOR, THAT WHICH I DO, I ALLOW NOT_, c.] The first
clause of this verse is a general assertion concerning the employment
of the person in question in the state which the apostle ca...
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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...
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CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_
2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .)
3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .)
4. The Experienc...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to
the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience.
That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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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. I...
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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. wish, this. practice.
WOULD. App-102. 1, Note the use of _thelo_, on the...
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E. THE STATE DESCRIBED IN Ch. Romans 7:14-24
The controversy over this profound passage is far too wide to allow
of full treatment here. It is scarcely needful to say that conclusions
very different...
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_I do_ The Gr. word is strong; CARRY OUT; perhaps with allusion to
servile task-work.
_allow_ In the old English sense of the word; "to allaud," "to praise,
or approve:" so "the Lord _alloweth_the rig...
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ΓᾺΡ amplifies the idea of πεπραμένος; he is no longer
his own master but under a tyranny he hates.
Δ ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ. The effects I produce are not the outcome
of my own knowledge and purpose.
ΟΥ̓ ΓΙΝΏ...
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Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in
each man, as the law could not do.
(7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of
sin, as, for instance, co...
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THAT WHICH I DO, I ALLOW NOT, &C.— From Romans 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, represent...
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_TEXT_
Romans 7:13-25. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to
me through that which is good;that through the comma...
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For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but
what I hate, that do I.
FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT, [ ginooskoo (G1097)] - literally (as
in margin), 'I know not;' I recog...
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Conciliation-Individual
13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good,
involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause
of death. But such is not the cas...
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7:15 do, (p-5) 'Work out to a result.' same word as 'wrought' in ver.
8 and 'working' in ver. 13....
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THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE
1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an
earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this
chapter ...
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ALLOW] RV 'know.'...
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PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ROMANS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 7
FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25
1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6
V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
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(14-25) Further and detailed proof why it was that though the Law
appealed to all that was best in man, still he could not obey it....
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THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT. — Rather, _that which I perform I know
not._ I act blindly, and without any conscious direction of the will;
that higher part of me which should preside over and direct my...
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CHAPTER 15
JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE
Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1
AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a
moment, to resume. He has brought...
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CHAPTER 16
THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Romans 7:7
THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin,
propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
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Only the hypothesis of slavery explains his acts. For what I do οὐ
γινώσκω, _i.e._, I do not recognise it as my own, as a thing
for which I am responsible and which I can approve: my act is that of
a...
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The last section of the chapter confirms the argument in which Paul
has vindicated the law, by exhibiting the power of sin in the flesh.
It is this which makes the law Weak, and defeats its good inten...
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THE CONFLICT WITHIN
Romans 7:14
The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of
the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been
revealed to it as the norm and...
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Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure
that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility.
Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
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(9) For that which I do I (10) allow not: for what I (11) would, that
do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
(9) He sets himself before us as an example, since he has been
regenerated, and in whom may...
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For that which I work, I understand not. To know, or understand is
often, in the style of the Scriptures, the same as to approve or love:
so the sense here is: I approve not what I do, that is, what h...
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SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN.
Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.)
The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having
involved man in death (Romans 7...
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It is from this Romans 7:14 especially that the difference between the
two explanations of the passage comes out: that which applies it to
the state of man regenerate, and that which regards it as dep...
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“ _Indeed what I perform I know not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I._ ”
This verse contains the proof from fact of the state of slavery which
Paul has just affirmed. The s...
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
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15._For what I do I know not_, _etc. _He now comes to a more
particular case, that of a man already regenerated; (221) in whom both
the things which he had in view appear more clearly; and these were,...
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We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ
with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early
part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
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FOR THAT WHICH I DO, I ALLOW NOT,.... The apostle having cleared the
law from the charge of being the cause either of sin or death, and
taken the blame to himself, proceeds to give an account of the
s...
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For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but
what I hate, that do I.
Ver. 15. _I allow not_] Gr. ου γινωσκω, I know not, as being
preoccupated,Galatians 6:1, wherried and whi...
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Rom. 7:15. "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do
I not; but what I hate, that do I." In the original it is ??
????s??_,_ "I know not," which confirms that the Apostle here speaks...
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_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 therefo...
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THAT WHICH I DO; in violation of the law of God.
I ALLOW NOT; I do not love it, delight in it, or approve of it.
WHAT I WOULD; to obey perfectly the law of God, THAT DO I NOT.
WHAT I HATE; to act i...
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The practical effect of this teaching:...
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FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT; FOR WHAT I WOULD, THAT DO I NOT; BUT
WHAT I HATE, THAT DO I....
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CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience
recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness
- hating evil and...
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13-15 THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE
Verse 13 Good Death 14 Spiritual Carnal 15 Will Action 16 Consent
Practice 17 Me Sin in me 18 Will Performance 19 Good Evil 21 Do good
Evil present 22 Inner Outer 23 Mind...
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ALLOW:
_ Gr._ know...
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FOR THAT WHICH. DO. KNOW NOT: FOR NOT WHAT. WOULD, THAT DO. PRACTISE;
BUT WHAT. HATE, THAT. DO. "FOR THAT WHICH. DO" -'In this and several
verses to follow we hear of utter frustration. But we need to...
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14-17 Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the
apostle found himself so very far short of perfection, that he seemed
to be carnal; like a man who is sold against his will to a ha...
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FOR THAT WHICH I DO; i.e. what I do contrary to the command of God. I
ALLOW NOT: in the Greek it is, I know not: q.d. Many times I am
surprised and overtaken, not knowing or considering what I do. Or...
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For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I
practise; but what I hate, that I do....
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Romans 7:15 For G1063 what G3739 doing G2716 (G5736) not G3756
understand G1097 (G5719) For G1063 what...
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‘For what I do I know not.'
Here begins Paul's description of the human moral struggle that is
experienced by most good people, but is especially the lot of the
Christian whose moral sense has been he...
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3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW
LIFE IN THE SPIRIT.
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is
affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
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2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_.
The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong
inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans
7:7), but...
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Romans 7:15. FOR THAT WHICH I PERFORM. In this passage there are three
Greek words translated ‘do' in the A. V. We distinguish them thus:
perform, practise, do; the first is usually rendered ‘work.'...
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I KNOW NOT
(ου γινωσκω). "I do not recognize" in its true nature. My
spiritual perceptions are dulled, blinded by sin (2 Corinthians 4:4).
The dual life pictured here by Paul finds an echo in us all...
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I DO I ALLOW NOT
The apostle personifies the strife of the two natures in the
believer, the old or Adamic nature, and the divine nature received
through the new birth (1 Peter 1:23); (2 Peter 1:4); ...
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Romans 7:14
Dualism in the Life.
I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms
"flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical
sense conferred upon them by o...
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Romans 7:1. 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?
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
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This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to
conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly
and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
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CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature.
Impossibility of victory through the law.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
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Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more
fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law,
that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I DO. The word "slavery" explains his
actions. "As a slave, my actions are guided by someone else's will....
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TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER?
_To the unregenerate.--_
It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified
man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and
t...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:13 Even if the law is not sin (vv. Romans
7:7), is the good law responsible for death? Paul argues that the
fault lies with sin, not with the law. Through the law, sin is
revea...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin
and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains
that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 7:14.—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will
dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.”
Romans 7:15.—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up, I kno...
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EXPOSITION
ROMANS 7:1
Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the
baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels
the claims of human law on a person (cf....
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Romans chapter 7.
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,)
(Romans 7:1)
In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has
dominion over a man as long as h...
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1 John 1:7; 1 John 1:8; 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Timothy 2:19; Amos 5:15;...
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I do [κ α τ ε ρ γ α ζ ο μ α ι]. See on ver. 8. Accomplish,
achieve. Here appropriately used of carrying out another's will. I do
not perceive the outcome of my sinful life.
I allow not [ο υ γ ι ν ω σ...
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THE INWARD CONFLICT
Romans 7:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a
woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a
husband, is...
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These words are an argument to prove what the apostle had asserted in
the foregoing verse; namely, That he was held under the power of sin
unwillingly, because he did not allow or approve of any evil...