Rom 7:17 | PNT | STEP | Now then it is no more I that do it . Not Paul as a freeman who sins, but Paul as the bond-servant of sin (see ), and hence it is sin who reigns over him, who sins in him, as the instrument. He describes the sinful state as one of bondage. How often a man does what he "would not"!

Romans 7:17

Now then it is no more I that do it. Not Paul as a freeman who sins, but Paul as the bond-servant of sin (see Ro 7:15), and hence it is sin who reigns over him, who sins in him, as the instrument. He describes the sinful state as one of bondage. How often a man does what he "would not"!