Romans 7:22

For I rejoice, I have simcha Torah in the Torah of Hashem, so far as the adam hapenimi + 7:22 Ep 3:16 is concerned,

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21I find then it be a Gezetz that for me who wishes to do HaTov (The Good), that for me HaRah (The Evil) lies ready at hand.

23But I see another gezetz (law) in my natural capacities at milchamah (war) with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Gezetz of Chet (Sin) which is [a power] in my natural capacities.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:39Then the kohen shall examine; and, hinei, if the bright spots in the skin of their basar be faint white, it is a bohak spot that groweth in the skin; he is tahor.

Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the Torat Hashem; 1 and in His torah doth he meditate yomam v'lailah. 1

Psalms 40:8Then said I, Hinei, I come; 1 in the megillat sefer it is written of me, + 40:8 cf MJ 10:5-7 1

Psalms 119:24Thy edot (testimonies) also are my delight 1 and anshei atzati (my counsellors). ד DALET 1

Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in Thy mitzvot, 1 which I love. 1

Psalms 119:92Unless Thy torah had been my delight, 1 I should then have perished in mine oni. 1

Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25

Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →

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