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 Living Translation (NLT)I love God’s law with all my heart.

Context of Romans 7:22

20Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23But 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. 24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Romans 7:22 word by word

συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• I delightσυνήδομαιsunēdomai · to delightG4913
• in the lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
• of Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• afterκατάkata · according toG2596
• theἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• inwardἔσωesō · in/inner/inwardlyG2080

Cross-references for Romans 7:22

• Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.
• Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
• Psalms 19:8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
• Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
• Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
• Psalms 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
• Isaiah 51:7“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
• Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
• Romans 2:29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
• 2 Corinthians 4:16Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
• Ephesians 3:16that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
• Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
• 1 Peter 3:4rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

Topics related to Romans 7:22

• Conscience
• Good and Evil
• Justification
• Man
• Spirit
• Stoicism
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• God
• Inward Man
• Appear
• Captivity
• Concupiscence
• Condescend
• Consent
• Delight
• Member
• Mind

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