Romans 7:22
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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Compare
- BSB
- For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- KJV
- For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- WEB
- For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
- ASV
- For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- DARBY
- For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
- BLB
- For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
- ÅB
- for jeg har lyst til Guds lov i mitt indre menneske,
- OTB
- For dypt inni meg gleder jeg meg over Guds lov;
- B1930
- for jeg har lyst til Guds lov efter mitt innvortes menneske,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Read in contextPsalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Read in contextPsalms 119:35
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Read in contextPsalms 119:47–48
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Read in contextHebrews 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, and they shall be to me a people:
Read in contextJob 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.
Read in contextPsalms 119:97–104
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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