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Romans 7:22
Romans 7:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- New International Version (NIV)For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
Context of Romans 7:22
20But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. 21I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: 23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. 24O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
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συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον,Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Romans 7:22
- Romans 8:7Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:
- Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
- Psalms 1:2But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
- Psalms 19:8The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;
- Psalms 40:8To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
- Psalms 119:16I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
- Psalms 119:97MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- Isaiah 51:7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their revilings.
- John 4:34Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
- Hebrews 8:10Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
- Romans 2:29but he [is] a Jew [who is so] inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.
- Ephesians 3:16in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;
- Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,
- 1 Peter 3:4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
Commentaries on Romans 7:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22I delight in the law of God after the inward man - Every Jew, and every unregenerate man, who receives the Old Testament as a revelation from God, must acknowledge the great purity, excellence and utility of its maxims, etc., though he will ever find that without the grace of our Lord Jesus he can never act according to those heavenly maxims; and without the mercy of God, can never be redeemed from the curse entailed upon him for his past transgressions…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22For I delight - The word used here ́ Sunēdomaioccurs no where else in the New Testament. It properly means to rejoice with anyone; and expresses not only approbation of the understanding, as the expression, “I consent unto the law,” in Romans 7:16, but more than that it denotes sensible pleasure in the heart. It indicates not only intellectual assent, but emotion, an emotion of pleasure in the contemplation of the Law. And this shows that the apostle is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-22Verses 18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace. But the whole good on which his will is fully bent, he does not do; sin ever springing up in him, through remaining corruption, he often does evil, though against the fixed determination of his will…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22in my inner being: Greek writers used this phrase to refer to the inner life of a person. It points to the spiritual part of a human being that does not pass away (compare 2 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 3:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man--"from the bottom of my heart." The word here rendered "delight" is indeed stronger than "consent" in Ro 7:16; but both express a state of mind and heart to which the unregenerate man is a stranger.Read the comment
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- 1. Romans 7:22 7.22 Elohim ↩
Commentaries on Romans 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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