Romans 7

Romans 7:13

Romans 7:13. “Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” This is to be connected with Romans 7:11, with these words, and by it (i.e., by the Law), slew me, and so with Romans 7:10, I found the Law to be unto death, and that with Romans 7:9when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, and that with the fifth verse, “For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the Law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.”

Rom. 7:14

Romans 7:14

Rom. 7:14. “For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.” Ahab sold himself to work evil, 1 Kings 21:20, “And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.” He did it of choice, he was a willing slave to sin, voluntarily submitted and gave up himself to the dominion of this master. But the Apostle Paul was sold under sin as a poor captive against his will, as the context obliges us to understand.

Rom. 7:15

Romans 7:15

Rom. 7:15. “For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.” In the original it is ?? ????s??, “I know not,” which confirms that the Apostle here speaks in the name of a true saint, and not in the name of a wicked man. For surely a wicked man knows his sins in the common use of such an expression in Scripture for approve, own, as what is near to him and belongs to him; but the Apostle here speaks of his not knowing sin in that sense, he disowns and renounces it; he does not approve of it as that which he has any relation to, and accordingly it is not in the sight of God approved as what belongs to him. That this is the sense confirmed by Romans 7:17, “Now, then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me,” and verse 20, “Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”

Rom. 8:15