Romans 7:24

Overwhelmed, Paul cries out for deliverance from this 'body of death.' The struggle drives him to long for rescue beyond his own power.

Cross-references · 35

• Rom 6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Rom 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
• 2 Cor 12:7–9And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
• Ps 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
• Rev 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
• Rom 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Heb 2:15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Ps 91:14–15Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
• Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
• Ps 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
• Ps 38:8–10I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Col 2:11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• Ps 71:11Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
• Mic 7:19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
• 1 Kgs 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
• Ps 119:81–83My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
• Ps 119:20My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
• Matt 5:6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• Ps 77:3–9I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Matt 5:4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
• Ps 119:131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
• Ps 130:1–3Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
• Ps 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
• Ps 88:5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
• Deut 22:26–27But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
• Zech 9:11–12As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
• Ezek 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
• 2 Cor 1:8–10For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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