Romans 7:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Romans 7:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:35
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Psalms 119:47-48
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. …
Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Topics

Conscience Creation Decision Ghost God Good and Evil Guilt Hades

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-25)

Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:—1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other appr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. 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.