Romans 7 is not conflict but experience-not the experience of a person at the time of his feeling its bitterness, but that of a delivered man who narrates what he felt when learning his powerlessness against the sinful nature he had discovered, and the sad evil of the flesh in which dwelt no good thing. As a man who had floundered in a morass, and found every plunge putting him deeper, drops his hands and cries out for a deliverer, who comes and pulls him out and sets him free, the delivered one turns round to thank his deliverer, and tell him, now at peace, what he felt when there. He had too much to think of when there; now he relates it on solid ground. So it is experience before deliverance, told by a delivered man.