Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
New American Standard Bible
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from
King James Version
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Holman Bible
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?
International Standard Version
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?
A Conservative Version
I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
American Standard Version
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Amplified
Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]?
An Understandable Version
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to [spiritual] death?
Anderson New Testament
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?
Common New Testament
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Daniel Mace New Testament
O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?
Darby Translation
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
Godbey New Testament
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Goodspeed New Testament
What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body?
John Wesley New Testament
Wretched man that I am!
Julia Smith Translation
I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?
King James 2000
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Modern King James verseion
O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from this body of death?
Moffatt New Testament
Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Montgomery New Testament
Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?
NET Bible
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
New Heart English Bible
What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Noyes New Testament
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?
Sawyer New Testament
Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?
The Emphasized Bible
Wretched, man am, I! Who shall rescue me out of this body doomed to death?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?
Webster
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Weymouth New Testament
(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
Williams New Testament
Wretched man that I am! Who can save me from this deadly lower nature?
World English Bible
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Worrell New Testament
Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Worsley New Testament
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death?
Youngs Literal Translation
A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Themes
Good and evil » Subjective conflict between
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Mind » What wars against the mind
Stoicism » Paul teaches » That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members,"
Thankfulness » Should be offered » For deliverance from indwelling sin, through Christ
Thanksgiving » Should be offered » For deliverance through Christ from in-dwelling sin
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the flesh
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:24
Prayers for Romans 7:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Syrophoenician Woman's Faith
23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh. 24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death? 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
Cross References
Romans 6:6
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
Colossians 2:11
In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
Deuteronomy 22:26-27
Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:
1 Kings 8:38
Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:
Psalm 6:6
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Psalm 71:11
Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
Psalm 72:12
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
Psalm 77:3-9
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
Psalm 88:5
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
Psalm 91:14-15
Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
Psalm 119:20
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
Psalm 119:81-83
My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Psalm 119:131
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Psalm 119:143
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Psalm 119:176
I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
Psalm 130:1-3
Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Micah 7:19
He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.
Zechariah 9:11-12
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:6
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:13
For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
2 Timothy 4:18
The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.
Hebrews 2:15
And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
Revelation 21:4
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.