I through the law died to the law (εγω δια νομου νομω απεθανον). Paradoxical, but true. See Rom 7:4,6 for picture of how the law w…

For I through the law. On this passage, commentators are not at all agreed. It is agreed that in the phrase "am dead to the law,"…

In the last verse, the Apostle had been presenting a hypothetical case, but by a not unnatural process of thought, he gradually uses the “I” more e…

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Je…

The “we” of v.17 (which included both Paul and Peter) has changed to the “I” of v.18. This personal form of expression continues as Paul begins to …

For I through the law. Now follows the direct reply: we must not attribute to Christ the work that properly belongs to the law. It was not…

For I through the law am dead to the law
The apostle further replies to the objection against the doctrine of justif…

Paul, having thus shown he was not inferior to any apostle, not even to Peter himself, speaks of the great foundational doctrine of the gospel. Why…

Here the Apostle expands on the solution given above. First, he explains the solution. Second, he draws his main conclusion (verse 21). It should b…