Psalms 119:127; Psalms 119:128; Romans 7:12; Romans 7:14; Romans 7:22
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....
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...
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 r...
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 conde...
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...
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:...
(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.
But the fact that I desire to do what is right is itself a witness to the excellence of the Law, which commands that which I desire.
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...
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...
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...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have on...
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...
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 di...
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 t...
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...
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...
Conflict between Grace and Corruption. A. D. 58....
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 goodnes...
‘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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 practical effect of this teaching:
if, then, I do that which I would not, I consent unto the Law that it is good.
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...
It is good — This single word implies all the three that were used before, Romans 7:12 , "holy, just, and good."
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.