Romans 7:14

“For we know that the law is spiritual, etc..] We who have a spiritual understanding of the law, who have been led into the true nature of it by the Spirit of God, know by experience that that itself is “spiritual”; and therefore can never be the cause of sin or death: the law may be said to be “spiritual”, because it comes from the Spirit of God; and reaches to the spirit of man; it requires truth in the inward parts; spiritual service and obedience; a serving of it with our minds; a worshipping of God in spirit and truth; a loving of him with all our hearts and souls, as well as a performance of all the outward acts of religion and duty; and because it cannot be truly obeyed and conformed…”

“For we know that the law is spiritual--in its demands. but I am carnal--fleshly (see on Rom 7:5), and as such, incapable of yielding spiritual obedience. sold under sin--enslaved to it. The "I" here, though of course not the regenerate, is neither the unregenerate, but the sinful principle of the renewed man, as is expressly stated in Rom 7:18.”

“The remainder of this chapter has been the subject of no small degree of controversy. The question has been whether it describes the state of Paul before his conversion, or afterward. It is not the purpose of these notes to enter into controversy, or into extended discussion. But after all the attention which I have been able to give to this passage, I regard it as describing the state of a man under the gospel, as descriptive of the operations of the mind of Paul subsequent to his conversion. This interpretation is adopted for the following reasons: (1) Because it seems to me to be the most obvious. It is what will strike plain people as being the natural meaning; people who do not have a…”

“I am carnal - St. Paul, having compared together the past and present state of believers, that "in the flesh," Rom 7:5, and that "in the spirit," Rom 7:6, in answering two objections, (Is then the law sin? Rom 7:7, and, Is the law death? Rom 7:13,) interweaves the whole process of a man reasoning, groaning, striving, and escaping from the legal to the evangelical state. This he does from Rom 7:7, to the end of this chapter. Sold under sin - Totally enslaved; slaves bought with money were absolutely at their master's disposal. Romans 7:16”

“the law: Lev 19:18; Deu 6:5; Psa 51:6; Mat 5:22, Mat 5:28, Mat 22:37-40; Heb 4:12 but: Rom 7:18, Rom 7:22, Rom 7:23; Job 42:6; Psa 119:25; Pro 30:2, Pro 30:5; Isa 6:5, Isa 64:5, Isa 64:6; Luk 5:8; Luk 7:6, Luk 18:11-14; Eph 3:8 carnal: Mat 16:23; Co1 3:1-3 sold: Rom 7:24; Gen 37:27, Gen 37:36, Gen 40:15; Exo 21:2-6, Exo 22:3; Kg1 21:20, Kg1 21:25; Kg2 17:17; Isa 50:1, Isa 52:3; Amo 2:6; Mat 18:25 Romans 7:15”