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7:14 I am carnal - St. Paul, having compared together the past and present state of believers, that "in the flesh," Rom 7:5, and that "in the spirit," Rom 7:6, in answering two objections, (Is then the law sin? Rom 7:7, and,Is the law death? Rom 7:13,) interweaves the whole process of a man reasoning, groaning, striving, and escaping from the legal to the evangelical state.This he does from Rom 7:7, to the end of this chapter.Sold under sin - Totally enslaved; slaves bought with money were absolutely at their master's disposal.

7:16 It is good - This single word implies all the three that were used before, Rom 7:12, "holy, just, and good."

7:17 It is no more I that can properly be said to do it, but rather sin that dwelleth in me - That makes, as it were, another person, and tyrannizes over me.

7:18 In my flesh - The flesh here signifies the whole man as he is by nature.

7:21 I find then a law - An inward constraining power, flowing from the dictate of corrupt nature.

7:22 For I delight in the law of God - This is more than "I consent to," Rom 7:16. The day of liberty draws near.The inward man - Called the mind, Rom 7:23, Rom 7:25.

7:23 But I see another law in my members - Another inward constraining power of evil inclinations and bodily appetites.Warring against the law of my mind - The dictate of my mind, which delights in the law of God. And captivating me - In spite of all my resistance

7:24 Wretched man that I am - The struggle is now come to the height; and the man, finding there is no help in himself, begins almost unawares to pray, Who shall deliver me? He then seeks and looks for deliverance, till God in Christ appears to answer his question. The word which we translate deliver, implies force. And indeed without this there can be no deliverance. The body of this death - That is, this body of death; this mass of sin, leading to death eternal, and cleaving as close to me as my body to my soul. We may observe, the deliverance is not wrought yet.

7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord - That is, God will deliver me through Christ. But the apostle, as his frequent manner is, beautifully interweaves his assertion with thanksgiving;' the hymn of praise answering in a manner to the voice of sorrow, "Wretched man that I am!" So then - He here sums up the whole, and concludes what he began, Rom 7:7.I myself - Or rather that I, the person whom I am personating, till this deliverance is wrought. Serve the law of God with my mind - My reason and conscience declare for God. But with my fleshthe law of sin - But my corrupt passions and appetites still rebel.The man is now utterly weary of his bondage, and upon the brink of liberty.

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8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation - Either for things present or past. Now he comes to deliverance and liberty.The apostle here resumes the thread of his discourse, which was interrupted, Rom 7:7.

8:2 The law of the Spirit - That is, the gospel. Hath freed me from the law of sin and death - That is, the Mosaic dispensation.

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10:9 Provide not - The stress seems to lie on this word: they might use what they had ready; but they might not stay a moment to provide any thing more, neither take any thought about it. Nor indeed were they to take any thing with them, more than was strictly necessary.

1. Lest it should retard them.
2. Because they were to learn hereby to trust to God in all future exigencies.

10:10 Neither scrip - That is, a wallet, or bag to hold provisions: Nor yet a staff - We read, Mar 6:8, Take nothing, save a staff only. He that hadone might take it; they that had none, might not provide any.For the workman is worthy of his maintenance - The word includes all that is mentioned in Mat 10:9-10 all that they were forbidden to provide for themselves, so far as it was needful for them. Luk 10:7.

10:11 Inquire who is worthy - That you should abide with him: who is disposed to receive the Gospel. There abide - In that house, till ye leave the town. Mar 6:10; Luk 9:4.

10:12 Salute it - In the usual Jewish form, "Peace (that is, all blessings) be to this house."

10:13 If the house be worthy - of it, God shall give them the peace you wish them. If not, he shall give you what they refuse. The same will be the case, when we pray for them that are not worthy.

10:14 Shake off the dust from your feet - The Jews thought the land of Israel so peculiarly holy, that when they came home from any heathen country, they stopped at the borders and shook or wiped off the dust of it from their feet, that the holy land might not be polluted with it. Therefore the action here enjoined was a lively intimation, that those Jews who had rejected the Gospel were holy no longer, but were on a level with heathens and idolaters.