Romans 7:14

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The remainder of this chapter has been the subject of no small degree of controversy. The question has been whether it describes the state of Paul...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(8) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (8) The law is the cause of this matter because the it requires a heaven...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 f...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

spiritual. See Romans 1:11 . carnal . Greek. sarkikos, according to the Received Text (App-94), but the Critical Texts read sarkinos (compare...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. For we know that the law, etc. He now begins more closely to compare the law with what man is, that it may be more clearly understood...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For, we know that the law is spiritual - This is a general proposition, and p...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But I am carnal— The Apostle is here demonstrating the insufficiency of the law, in opposition to the Gospel; but if by I he meant himself, or an...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For we know - that is, it is a recognized principle. But this manner...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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:...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For we know. — There is no need to argue the question. We Christians all know that the Law is spiritual. It is divinely given and inspired. On th...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 Ap...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 16 THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans 7:7-25 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, p...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have on...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 wh...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For we know that the law is spiritual ,.... We who have a spiritual understanding of the law, who have been led into the true nature of it by the Sp...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Ver. 14. Sold under sin ] But yet ill paid of my slavery, and lusting aft...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For we know that the law is spiritual Extending to the spirit of man; forbidding even the sins of the spirit; sins internal, committed merely in me...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 ri...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. A. D. 58....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He goes on to clear the law, and excuse it, giving it another commendation, that it is spiritual; i.e. it requires such obedience as is not only o...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.' If we consider the passage from Romans 7:14 to Romans 8:4 we discover...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Scofield Reference Notes

carnal Compare ( 1 Corinthians 3:1 ); ( 1 Corinthians 3:4 ). "Carnal" meaning "fleshly" is Paul's word for the Adamic nature, and for the b...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

To whom does the passage refer? To the unregenerate.-- It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man stil...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 7:1-45 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The practical effect of this teaching:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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 hus...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I am carnal — St. Paul, having compared together the past and present state of believers, that "in the flesh," Romans 7:5 , and that "in the spiri...

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Related Commentaries of Romans 7:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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