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Romans 7:22

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

KJV

συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον,

Greek NT

condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem :

Vulgate

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

ASV

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
συνήδομαι
sunedomai
verb · 1×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἔσω
eso
adverb · 9×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1995The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner man,"44 justification entails the sanctification of his whole being: Just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.... But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, …
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210213.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me? Calvin expounds the inner conflict of the believer. The law is holy, just, and good, but it reveals sin and arouses it. Paul speaks from his own experience as a regenerate man: the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do. This struggle is not the mark of an unregenerate person but of one in whom the S…
He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished, and the Sacred Books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ. Chapter 1. He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, …
Q. But can those converted to God obey these commandments perfectly? A. No. In this life even the holiest have only a small beginning of this obedience. Nevertheless, with all seriousness of purpose, they do begin to live according to all, not only some, of God's commandments.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:21 — To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
  • 1John 5:3 — For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
  • 1Pet 3:4 — But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • 1Pet 3:4 — But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • 1Tim 1:8 — But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
  • 2Cor 4:16 — For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
  • 2Cor 4:16 — For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
  • Col 3:9 — Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
  • Eph 3:16 — That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
  • Eph 3:16 — That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
  • Isa 51:7 — Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
  • Jas 1:25 — But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
  • Jer 6:10 — To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in
  • Jer 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God
  • Job 22:26 — For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
  • 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.
  • Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
  • John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
  • Matt 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • Phil 1:10 — That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
  • Ps 1:2 — But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
  • Ps 1:2 — But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
  • Ps 19:8 — The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 19:8 — The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 40:8 — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Ps 40:8 — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Ps 51:6 — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
  • Ps 62:4 — They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 112:1 — Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
  • Ps 119:5 — O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
  • Ps 119:16 — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:16 — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:24 — Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
  • Ps 119:25 — My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
  • Ps 119:35 — Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
  • Ps 119:35 — Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
  • Ps 119:47 — And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
  • Ps 119:47 — And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.