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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Romans 7 The Apostle, in this chapter, discourses concerning the freedom of justified and regenerated persons from the law, and concerning the nature, use, and excellency of it; in which he removes several objections to it, and gives an account from his own experience of the struggle and combat there is between flesh and spirit in a regenerate person; and which shows, that though...
John Gill
For that which I do, I allow not,.... The apostle having cleared the law from the charge of being the cause either of sin or death, and taken the blame to himself, proceeds to give an account of the struggle and combat he found in himself between the flesh and spirit; "that which I do, I allow not". That which he did was evil, since he allowed not of it; but this is to be understood not of any...
Matthew Henry
We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification, ver. 1-6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle's own experience, notwithstanding, ver. 7-14. III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, ver. 14, 15, to the end. Observations Respecting the Law. (a....
Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: The man himself does that which is evil, but his conscience revolts against it. Rom_7:15. For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. This is a strange contradiction, — a man who has grace enough to will to do good, and yet does it not. There are two men in the one man, — the new nature struggling against the old nature. This must be a renewed man...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: I often do that which I do not justify, which I do not wish to do again, which I abhor myself for doing.