Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 7:24

"Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?" — Romans 7:24 (ASV)

So this internal struggle goes on continually and reaches no resolution, until at last the miserable man cries out, almost in despair, “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24).

Who, that is, will help me to overcome these fleshly desires, engendered by a corrupt human nature, which are dragging me down to imminent destruction?

The body is the cause of sin and therefore of death. If only it could be released from that, the troubled soul would be at rest and free.

The body of this death.—The body (the slave of sin and therefore the dwelling place) of death.

The words are a cry for deliverance from the whole of this mortal nature, in which carnal appetite and sin and death are inextricably mingled.

To complete this deliverance, the triple resurrection—ethical, spiritual, and physical—is needed.