McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 7:20
But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
ROMANS 7:20 @evgw,# {C} Not only is the external evidence rather evenly balanced, but also from the point of view of transcriptional probability evgw, might have been either accidentally omitted thro...
Verse Romans 7:20. _IT IS NO MORE I_] My _will_ is against it; my _reason_ and _conscience_ condemn it. _But sin that dwelleth in me_-the _principle of sin_, which has possessed itself of all my _car...
NOW IF I DO ... - This verse is also a repetition of what was said in Romans 7:16....
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...
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...
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...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
NOW, &C. = But if what. do not myself wish, this. do. IT IS, &C. = no longer. myself (emph.)...
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...
] These verses almost repeat Romans 7:15; Romans 7:17; not however as a tautology, but as emphasizing by repetition the two main facts in view, the reality of the renewal of the will, and the reality...
20 = 17....
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...
ΟΙΚΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΟΊΚΈΩ (G3611) жить (_см._ СТ. 17)....
DISCOURSE: 1854 SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS OF BELIEVERS Romans 7:18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I...
I WOULD NOT— _I,_ in the Greek, is very emphatical, and denotes the man in that part, which is chiefly to be countedhimself; and therefore with the like emphasis, Romans 7:15 it is called αυτος εγω, _...
_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...
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME - in the sense, however, e...
__ 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...
7:20 do (a-17) See Note, ver. 15....
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 ...
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...
(18-20) Enthralled it is, and the will is powerless. What I do and what I will are opposite things. It is therefore sin that acts, and not I....
(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....
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...
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...
The same conclusion as in Romans 7:17. If the _first_ ἐγὼ is right, it must go with οὐ θέλω : Paul distinguishes himself sharply, as a person whose inclination is violated by his actions, from the ind...
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...
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...
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...
“ _Now if I do that I would not, I myself_, _it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me._ ” A conclusion uniform with that before enunciated, Romans 7:16-17: “I am not master of myself;...
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...
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...
SECOND CYCLE: ROMANS 7:18-20. The first verse again contains a thesis parallel to that of Romans 7:14. This thesis is demonstrated by experience in the second part of the verse and in Romans 7:19, whi...
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...
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...
NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT,.... The same conclusion is formed here, as in Romans 7:17, not with any view to excuse himself from blame in sinning, but to trace the lusts of his heart, and the sins of...
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Ver. 20. _It is no more I_] Every new man is two men. _See Trapp on "_ Rom 7:17 _"_ But sin that dwelleth in m...
_For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh_ The corrupt and degenerate self, my animal appetites and passions, debased and enslaved as they are by sin through the fall; or in me, while I was _in the...
NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME. St. Paul here, for the sake of emphasis, repeats and amplifies his statements concerning the struggle between fle...
The struggle between the flesh and the spirit in the believer:...
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...
BUT IF WHAT. WOULD NOT, THAT. DO, IT IS NO MORE. THAT DO IT, BUT SIN WHICH DWELLETH IN ME. After all the "wishing" and "desiring" and "trying", being under the demands of Law, one finds that sin stil...
18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His ea...
SEE POOLE ON "ROMANS 7:19...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Consequenter subjunxit: "Si autem quod nolo, hoc ego facio, non utique ego id operor, sed quod inhabitat in me peccatum: "quod "repugnans," inquit, "legi" Dei...
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‘But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I who do it, but sin which dwells in me.' And the explanation for all this was the sin that dwelt in him that lay at the root of his fleshly disposi...
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...
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...
Romans 7:20. BUT IF WHAT I WISH NOT, etc. Since this is the case (as Romans 7:19 shows), then the position of Romans 7:17 is sustained: it is no longer I, etc. The repetition in this clause is exact,...
IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT (ουκετ εγω κατεργαζομα αυτο). Just as in verse Romans 7:17, "no longer do I do it" (the real Εγο, my better self), and yet there is responsibility and guilt for the strug...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
Romans 7:20 What are the lessons of life which we have to deduce from the doctrine of original sin? I. First, of course, there is that dependence on God's help, which we can never too often repeat to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THIS MEANS THAT NO LONGER AM I THE ONE. The same answer as Romans 7:17. To be saved from sin, a man must at the same time _own it_ [confess to it] and _disown it_ [repudiate it]. This is the Christian...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
Romans 7:17...
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...