Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
Romans 7:21
The law
(τον νομον). The principle already set forth (αρα, accordingly) in verses Romans 7:18; Romans 7:19. This is the way it works, but there is no surcease for the stings of conscience.
The law
(τον νομον). The principle already set forth (αρα, accordingly) in verses Romans 7:18; Romans 7:19. This is the way it works, but there is no surcease for the stings of conscience.
Verse Romans 7:21. _I FIND THEN A LAW_] I am in such a condition and state of soul, under the power of such habits and sinful propensities, _that when I would do good_-when my _will_ and _reason_ are...
I FIND THEN A LAW - There is a law whose operation I experience whenever I attempt to do good. There have been various opinions about the meaning of the word “law” in this place. It is evident that it...
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...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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...
A LAW, &C.. the law with me who wish....
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...
_I find then_, &c. The Gr. construction of this verse is difficult. But the explanation is helped by remembering that THE LAW, not "_a_law," is the right version; and all analogy of passages leads us...
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...
ἌΡΑ sums up the reiterated positions of Romans 7:15-20. ΤῸΝ ΝΌΜΟΝ = this law of my condition: a new sense of the word involving some confusion of language. The law of his condition is that there are t...
ΘΈΛΟΝΤΙ _praes. act. part. dat. sing. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать. Part, описывает текущую особенность, ΠΟΙΕΪ́Ν _praes. inf. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать. _Inf._ как дополнение основного гл....
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...
_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...
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. I FIND THEN A LAW, [ ton (G3588) nomon (G3551)] - rather, 'this law,' THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME....
__ 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...
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...
I FIND THEN A LAW. — Of the many ways of taking this difficult verse, two seem to stand out as most plausible or possible. In any case “_a_ law” should be rather “_the_ law.” This is taken by the majo...
(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...
Romans 7:21-23 summarise the argument. εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον … ὅτι : most commentators hold that the clause introduced by ὅτι is the explanation of τὸν νόμον. The law, in short, which Paul has discove...
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...
(13) I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. (13) The conclusion: as the law of God exhorts to goodness, so does the law of sin (that is, the corruption in which we are...
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 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...
“ _I find then, this law, that, when I would do good, evil cleaves to me._ ” Always the same two characteristics of his moral state: will for good, but powerless; evil carrying him away in practice....
THIRD CYCLE: ROMANS 7:21-25. This cycle, while repeating the same experiences, stamps them as the abiding and definitive _result_ of the state of things described throughout the whole passage (ἄρα, _c...
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...
21._I find then_, _etc. _Here Paul supposes a fourfold law. The first is the law of God, which alone is properly so called, which is the rule of righteousness, by which our life is rightly formed. To...
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...
I FIND THEN A LAW,.... This is to be understood either of the corruption of nature, which he found by experience to be in him; and which, because of its force, power, and prevalence it sometimes had i...
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. Ver. 21. _When I would do good_] Something lay at the fountain head, as it were, and stopped him when he would do his duty. But...
_I find then a law_ An inward constraining power, flowing from my depraved nature; _that when I would_ When I incline and purpose to _do good, evil is present with me_ To prevent the execution of such...
A LAW; a constant tendency to evil, when I desire to be and do that only which is perfectly good....
I FIND, THEN, A LAW, THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME....
The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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...
ROMANS 7:21. FIND THEN THE LAW, THAT, TO ME WHO WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT. Under. system of law, not matter how hard Paul tried and desired to fulfill the demands of the law, he still found hims...
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...
OLBGrk; This verse hath greatly vexed interpreters. The apostle speaking simply and abstractly of A LAW, the question is: What law he means? Some take the word improperly, for a decree or condition, w...
I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. [So then, I say again that I, in my own conscience, endorse the goodness of the law, for my spiritual nature wishes to perform its...
Romans 7:21 find G2147 (G5719) then G686 law G3551 that G3754 evil G2556 present G3873 (G5736) me...
‘I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,...
Romans 7:21. I FIND THAN THE LAW, etc. The literal sense of the verse is: I find then the law to me wishing (willing) to do the good, that to me the evil is present. Some refer ‘the law' to the Mosaic...
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...
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...
LAW Six "laws" are to be distinguished in Romans: THE LAW OF MOSES, which condemns (Romans 3:19); THE "LAW" AS A PRINCIPLE, (Romans 3:21); THE LAW OF FAITH, which excludes self-righteousness ...
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...
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...
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...
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 LAW IS AT WORK. This is similar to Romans 7:10. "This is how I find the Law or life under the rule of the Law works out in actual practice: when I make up my mind to do good, evil is the only cho...
_I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me._ THE INWARD CONFLICT There is no word with which we are more familiar than “conflict.” We see strife everywhere; amongst the e...
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 7:21 The meaning of “law” in these verses has been debated. Some think every use of the word refers to the Mosaic law. Most argue that in vv. Romans 7:21 and...
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...
2 Chronicles 30:18; 2 Chronicles 30:19; 2 Peter 2:19; Ephesians 6:11;...
A law. With the article, the law. The constant rule of experience imposing itself on the will. Thus in the phrases law of faith, works, the spirit. Here the law of moral contradiction. When I would ...
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...
I find then a law — An inward constraining power, flowing from the dictate of corrupt nature....
As if the apostle had said, "I verily find sin, having an impelling power and impulsive virtue in it, like. law in my members, thwarting and contradicting the inclinations of my mind, and the resoluti...