Romans 7

Which worship songs are based on Romans 7?

  1. Learn Some Deuteronomy — ApologetiX (2020) Romans 7:1-4

    The explicit citation accompanies the claim that Christ's death releases believers from their former legal liability and opens a new life of grace, closely reflecting Paul's argument about dying to the law through Christ.

  2. Sálvame De Mi — Alex Zurdo (2023) Romans 7:15

    The confession that he repeatedly does what he hates closely follows Paul’s description of acting against his own moral desire.

  3. I Did It Again — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2025) Romans 7:15-25

    The repeated pattern of recognizing what is right yet yielding to sinful desire closely parallels Paul's description of doing what he hates and experiencing conflict between his will and the power of sin within him.

  4. Circles — Jonathan Ogden (2026) Romans 7:15-19

    The confession that the singer repeatedly fails to carry out what he intends closely parallels Paul's description of wanting to do good yet doing otherwise. The surrounding appeal for rescue also fits Paul's portrayal of the self divided by sin.

  5. Away — KB & Limoblaze (2023) Romans 7:15-25

    The third verse closely reproduces Paul’s description of doing what he does not want to do, then echoes his cry for deliverance from bondage to sin. The surrounding language about conflict with the flesh confirms sustained engagement with this passage.

  6. Daylight — David Kushner (2023) Romans 7:15-19

    The recurring conflict between desiring a sinful act, hating it, and nevertheless repeating it closely parallels Paul’s description of doing the very evil he does not want to do.

  7. LOOK OUT BELOW — Alive City & Quasarpro (2025) Romans 7:15-24

    The speaker describes doing what he hates, repeatedly returning to destructive behavior, and experiencing an internal conflict associated with the flesh. This closely follows Paul's account of captivity to sin and his inability to carry out the good he desires.

  8. There's Always More — Travis Greene & Annatoria (2025) Romans 7:15-24

    The opening confession closely follows Paul's description of being unable to practice the good he desires because sin remains active in his mortal nature.

  9. Chase Me Down — Chris Tomlin (2020) Romans 7:15-19

    The opening confession closely follows Paul's description of knowingly practicing the behavior he hates rather than the good he desires to do.

  10. In the Light — Shane & Shane (2024) Romans 7:15-25

    The verses echo Paul's bewilderment over practicing behavior he hates, his inability to master sin through his own effort, and his resulting need for deliverance through a Savior.

  11. Fight Anymore — For All Seasons (2018) Romans 7:15-19

    The opening describes the same conflict Paul articulates between sincerely willing one course of action and repeatedly doing the opposite. Its focus on failed resolve and unwanted behavior closely follows Paul's account of inner bondage.

  12. Me? Sarcastic? Never... — Collective Dust (2025) Romans 7:18

    The closing confession that human flesh contains no inherent good closely follows Paul’s description of sin dwelling in the flesh and his inability to carry out the good he desires.

  13. Better Part of Me — Michael Sweet (2019) Romans 7:18-23

    The divided self—one inward impulse seeking holiness while another pursues worldly desire—parallels Paul’s description of wanting what is good while experiencing another power at war within him.

  14. Let Go — Sam Rivera (2022) Romans 7:18-24

    The singer desires to choose what is right yet repeatedly loses control and admits his inability to overcome the destructive pattern alone. This closely parallels Paul’s account of wanting to do good while remaining captive to contrary behavior and needing deliverance.

  15. In Spite of Me — Bryan Andrew Wilson (2018) Romans 7:21

    The singer describes a recurring pattern in which his attempts to do right are persistently accompanied by wrongdoing. This closely parallels Paul’s observation that evil remains present when he desires to do good.

  16. You Tell Em' Jango! I'm Too Mad! — Collective Dust (2025) Romans 7:24

    The rhetorical question about who will save from the body of death directly echoes Paul's lament in Romans about wretchedness and the need for salvation.

  17. Worship from a Wretch — Front Porch Step (2017) Romans 7:24

    The speaker’s distinctive self-identification as a wretched man echoes Paul’s anguished description of bondage to sin and need for deliverance through Christ.

  18. Cry for You — Lecrae (2017) Romans 7:24

    Lecrae adopts Paul's distinctive description of mortal bondage while lamenting destructive desires and longing for release from them.

Romans 7 (King James Version)

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 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.

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

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.