“ If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. ”
I consent unto the law - The very struggle with evil shows that it is not loved, or approved, but that the Law which condemns it is really loved. Christians may here find a test of their piety. T...
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...
If... not . But if what. do not wish, this. do. If . App-118. consent . Greek. sumphemi. Only here.
16. But if what I desire not, I do, I consent to the law, etc.; that is, “When my heart acquiesces in the law, and is delighted with its righteousness, (which certainly is the case when it...
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. If then I do that which I would not, etc. - Knowing that the law condemns it, and that therefore it must be evil. I cons...
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. If then I do that which I would not - `If what I would not, that I do,' I consent unto the law that it is good...
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 3:20-21 ; Romans 4:15 ; Romans 5:20 . In this chapter ( Romans 7:7-2...
(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 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He...
the Conflict Within Romans 7:14-25 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...
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...
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...
If then I do that which I would not ,.... This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experience; that since what he did, though it was contrary to the law of God, yet w...
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Ver. 16. I consent unto the law ] I vote with it, and for it, as the rule of right; I wish also well to the observan...
If then I do that which I would not , &c. In willing not to do it, I do so far, though to my own condemnation, consent to the law , and bear my testimony to it that it is good And do indeed d...
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...
Conflict between Grace and Corruption. A. D. 58. 14b -- But I am carnal, sold under sin. 1...
This very thing is an argument, that the law is such as I have before asserted, Romans 7:12,14 . This shows my consent to the holiness and goodness of the law; I vote with it, and for it, as the o...
‘But if what I would not, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.' ‘Thus', says Paul, ‘if I at times do what I in my mind do not want to do, doing what I know to be contrary to God's Law, b...
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,...
Romans 7:14-25 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 th...
Romans 7:1-3 . 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 la...
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 lon...
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 a...
EXPOSITION Romans 7:1-45 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...
The practical effect of this teaching:
Psalms 119:127 ; Psalms 119:128 ; Romans 7:12 ; Romans 7:14 ; Romans 7:22
The Inward Conflict Romans 7:7-25 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 hus...
It is good — This single word implies all the three that were used before, Romans 7:12 , "holy, just, and good."