 | Thomas M. Preble - Sabbath - 1867 - 488 pages
...warring against the law of my MIND, and making me a captive to THAT LAW OF SIN EXISTINGin my MEMBERS. Wretched man that I am ! who will rescue me from this BODY of DEATH ? Thanks to God by means of Jesus Christ our Lord. Consequently, then, indeed, I myself, by the MIND,... | |
 | Richard Henry Edwards, Ethel Cutler - Apostles - 1915 - 160 pages
...of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members. . . . Miserable wretch that I am ! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Rom. 7:9-24, Moffatt). What experiences during his persecutions of the Christians deepened his sense... | |
 | Marshall Dawson - Evolution - 1923 - 166 pages
...body's present condition. What shall we do, then? Pass on to the latter half of the exclamation: "O wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord." If the first half of this exclamation stood... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - Bible - 1923 - 310 pages
...the law of God," he says, "with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? " 1 May not this schism of the spirit have prepared the way for the new revelation? Intellectually,... | |
 | Marshall Dawson - Evolution - 1923 - 178 pages
...fallen: until we hear, once more, that voice which has cried, through every awakened age of history, "0 wretched man that I am! .Who will rescue me from this body of death?"6 St. Paul flatters no one. When he cries out, "Who will rescue me from this body of death,"... | |
 | Burris Jenkins - Bible - 1925 - 248 pages
...would rend and tear each other to pieces if they kept up their conflicts. Again : "Miserable wretch that I am ! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Rom. VII : 24). Here the figure of speech suggests a corpse, stiff and cold, heavy and hard, bound... | |
 | Anthony A. Hoekema - Religion - 1975 - 160 pages
...of which is reproduced in the Revised Standard Version: "For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." By means of these "for"s Paul is tying in what follows with what he has said before. The rest of chapter... | |
 | Elizabeth Achtemeier - Religion - 1976 - 228 pages
...it all with our slavery to evil. As Paul put it so long ago: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ... I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do... | |
 | Charles Primus - Religion - 1977 - 236 pages
...law, Paul focuses on the gap between intention and action. "I do not understand my own actions .For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom. 7:15). Carnal man, on Paul's view, is separated off from the spiritual, the ideal realm of "the... | |
 | William Egginton - Philosophy - 2006 - 244 pages
...— is spirit — but the body is "carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." The problem Paul is trying to deal with is that he recognizes the dialectic relating sin and the law,... | |
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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 
