22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. …
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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…
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