Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 7:21-24

"I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?" — Romans 7:21-24 (ASV)

That, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Now, the holier a man becomes, the more he cries out in this way.

While he is at an earlier stage of spiritual growth, he tolerates sin and is uneasy. But when he comes to see Christ and become somewhat like Him, the closer he draws to the image of his Master, the more the presence of the slightest sinful thought is horrifying to him.

He would, if he could, never look on sin again—never have the slightest inclination towards it. Yet he finds his heart straying and wandering when he wishes he could tether it to the cross and crucify it there.

And so, the happier he is in Christ, the more desperately he cries out against the wretchedness of being touched by sin, even in the slightest degree: Oh! wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?