Romans Chapter 7

Romans 7 explains the believer’s changed relationship to the Law through union with Jesus Christ. Using marriage as an illustration, Paul teaches that we have died to the former covenant relationship so that we may belong to the risen Christ and bear fruit for God. The Law is holy and reveals sin, but it cannot deliver us from sin’s power. Paul then describes the painful conflict between the inward desire to obey God and sin working through the weakness of the flesh. His desperate question—“Who will deliver me from this body of death?”—finds its answer in Jesus Christ our Lord.