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Romans 7:24

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

KJV

ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος· τίς με ῥύσεται ἐκ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ θανάτου τούτου;

Greek NT

Infelix ego homo, quis me liberabit de corpore mortis hujus ?

Vulgate

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

ASV

Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ταλαίπωρος
talaiporos
adjective · 2×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ῥύομαι
ruomai
verb · 17×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

16 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

God showed himself, by the fall of man, as patient, benign, merciful, mighty to save. Man is therefore most ungrateful, if, unmindful of his own lot, and of the benefits held out to him, he do not acknowledge divine grace. 1. Long-suffering therefore was God, when man became a defaulter, as foreseeing that victory which should be granted to him through the Word. For, when stren…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210213.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me? Calvin expounds the inner conflict of the believer. The law is holy, just, and good, but it reveals sin and arouses it. Paul speaks from his own experience as a regenerate man: the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do. This struggle is not the mark of an unregenerate person but of one in whom the S…
He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished, and the Sacred Books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ. Chapter 1. He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, …
Heidelberg Catechism · 5 passages
Q. How do you come to know your misery? A. The law of God tells me.
Q. Can you live up to all this perfectly? A. No. I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor.
Q. Since Christ has died for us, why do we still have to die? A. Our death does not pay for our sins. Rather, it puts an end to our sinning and is our entrance into eternal life.
…and 2 more from this source.
Canons of Dort · 2 passages
Those people whom God according to his purpose calls into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and regenerates by the Holy Spirit, he also sets free from the reign and slavery of sin, though in this life not entirely from the flesh and from the body of sin.
Meanwhile, Scripture testifies that believers have to contend in this life with various doubts of the flesh and that under severe temptation they do not always experience this full assurance of faith and certainty of perseverance. But God, the Father of all comfort, does not allow them to be tempted beyond what they can bear, but with the temptation also provides the way of esc…
We believe that by the disobedience of Adam original sin has been spread through the whole human race. It is a corruption of the whole human nature—an inherited depravity which even infects small infants in their mother's womb, and the root which produces in humanity every sort of sin. It is therefore so vile and enormous in God's sight that it is enough to condemn the human ra…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
  • 2Cor 5:2 — For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
  • 2Cor 12:7 — And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above mea
  • 2Tim 4:18 — And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Col 2:11 — In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
  • Gal 3:24 — Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Heb 2:15 — And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
  • Luke 4:18 — The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sig
  • Matt 5:6 — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
  • Mic 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Ps 6:6 — I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
  • Ps 38:8 — I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 71:11 — Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
  • Ps 72:12 — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
  • Ps 91:14 — Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
  • Ps 97:10 — Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • Ps 102:20 — To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
  • Ps 119:20 — My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
  • Ps 119:81 — My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
  • Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
  • Rev 21:4 — And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
  • Rom 6:6 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
  • Rom 6:6 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
  • Rom 8:2 — For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 8:2 — For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 8:13 — For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
  • Rom 8:23 — And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
  • Rom 8:26 — Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
  • Rom 8:26 — Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
  • Rom 14:22 — Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
  • Titus 2:14 — Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.