15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
A righteous man hates lies, But a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
I run in the path of your commandments, For you have set my heart free.
> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law. Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart. Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them. Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes! Then I wouldn't be disappointed, When I consider all of your commandments.
You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Sins overwhelmed me, But you atoned for our transgressions.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.
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Commentary on Romans 7 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 7
We may observe in this chapter,
Rom 7:1-6
Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (v. 14), that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (v. 6): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life?
Rom 7:7-14
To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experience the great excellency and usefulness of the law, not as a covenant, but as a guide; and further discovers how sin took occasion by the commandment. Observe in particular,
Rom 7:14-25
Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:-