Romans 7 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

• The subject treated of is not the fact of the conflict between the two natures, but the effect of the law, supposing the will to be renewed, and the law to have obtained the suffrage of the conscience and to be the object of the heart’s affections—a heart which recognizes the spirituality of the law. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• Here the person spoken of is under the law: everything is in connection with the law. The law is spiritual; we consent to the law, we delight in the law. Neither Christ nor the Spirit is mentioned until the question of deliverance comes in. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• It is the personal experience of what the flesh is under law, when the man is quickened, and not the state of a Christian as such before God. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• All this part of the epistle is more complicated than what precedes Rom. 5:12, because our own experience is in conflict with what faith teaches us to say. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• The sense of unanswered responsibility, and the absence of peace, cause the soul necessarily to turn in upon itself. It is taken up entirely with self, which is spoken of nearly forty times from verse 14. It is well to be so, rather than to be insensible. It is not peace. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• {v.14-19} The actual picture portrayed in these verses is that of a person (as to his conscience) being under the Law, and struggling in the flesh to keep the Law's demands—but continually failing. Instead of finding deliverance by fighting the flesh, the more he struggles, the more it brings him into captivity. (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

• He rightly justifies the Law, stating that it is "spiritual" (vs. 14); the problem, he rightly concludes, is with himself—he is "carnal" and "sold (as a slave) under sin (his master)." (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

• Romans 7 describes a conflict between the two natures in a child of God struggling against each other. This is because he doesn't have the indwelling of the Spirit. Whereas in Galatians 5:16-17, the person is seen as having the Spirit, and the struggle is between the flesh and the Spirit. This conflict results from a believer not walking in the Spirit, because he is in a poor state of soul. (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

For we knowm that the law is spiritual: but *I*n am fleshlyo, sold under sin.

JND Translation Notes

Oida. as ch. 6.16.

I have put "I" in italic when the personal pronoun ego is emphatically introduced in Greek and the emphasis is not otherwise apparent.

\@Sarkinos. see Note, 1 Cor. 3.1.

W. Kelly Translation

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnala, sold under sin.

WK Translation Notes

The best authorities read "carnal" (sarkinos) not "fleshly" (sarkikos) as in the T. R. The difference is that the former is a confession of being mere flesh physically. So, it is in {vi 28845}{/vi}; {vi 30081}{/vi}, and probably in {vi 28412}{/vi} (but not in verses 3, 4, where the other form is clearly right). In {vi 28331}{/vi}; {vi 28552}{/vi}; 2 Cor. 1:12, 10:4; {vi 30411}{/vi}, it is "sarkikos" in most of which the physical idea of flesh would be out of place. In our text the difference is of some importance as corroborating the scope of the passage that the will was not engaged. Were this meant to be expressed, "sarkinos" would be the more proper term.