Romans 7:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”
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“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A wretched man I <FI>am<Fi> ! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?”
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Other passages that echo Romans 7:24 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 22:26Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- 1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalms 38:8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
- Psalms 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
- Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- Psalms 88:5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
- Psalms 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
- Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- Psalms 119:131I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- Psalms 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
- Ezekiel 9:4“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
- Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- Zechariah 9:11As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.
- Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- 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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
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