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 was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Rom 8:26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
• 2 Cor 12:7–9By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
• Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
• Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
• Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Heb 2:15and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Ps 91:14–15“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Ps 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Ps 38:8–10I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
• Col 2:11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• Ps 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
• Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
• 1 Kgs 8:38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
• Ps 119:81–83My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
• Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
• Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
• Ps 77:3–9I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
• Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
• Ps 119:131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
• Ps 130:1–3A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
• Ps 38:2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
• Ps 88:5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
• Deut 22:26–27but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
• Zech 9:11–12As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Ezek 9:4Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• 2 Cor 1:8–10For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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