...his own affairs; and in sheer misery he cries out: O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!21. And: Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death?2*. Deeply hurt, I come to a dead stop. Condemned to my own existence, I remain a captive of...

...things that are sinful and unclean. In Romans 7:24 Paul goes on to say that our body is a body of death: "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" Then in Romans 8:10 Paul points out that although the spirit is life because of righteousness,...

...bad fruit. Whether it is the good fruit or the bad fruit, both lead to his death. Therefore, he says, "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" (v. 24). He is so desirous to keep the law, yet the result is death. This is the death that...

...delight in the law of God, according to the inward man, but I see in my members another law. . . . Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with...

...in my inmost self (v. 22); "I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind" (v. 23); "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? (v. 24); "So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve...

...this I do. ...For I do not do the good which I will; but the evil which I do not will, this I practice Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" (vv. 15, 19, 24). Does this not show that Paul clearly knew that he should do good but did...

...evil which I would not, that I do." Hence the apostle's cry of simultaneous despair and rejoicing: "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. 7:19, 24-25). Barth follows the example of...

...oriented thinking can't solve our problems, we give up. Paul, when dealing with his flesh, cried out, "Oh, wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" Unfortunately, there is no magic button in our mind (or any other place for that matter) that...

...Romans carries no hint of autobiography. 10 Combined with the pathos of the preceding outcry in 7:24, "Wretched man [that] I [am] ! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" a fictive "I myself in 7:25 would be incredibly theatrical. 1 1 Even a vicarious ex6 See G....

...who was crucified didn't come to his aid. Therefore, when he was in deadly peril, what did he say? Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death, so that I do not commit the iniquity that delights my flesh? The grace of Cod through Jesus...