Romans 7:22

Really, we ourselves, we want to live the right way,

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21This is what happens. It is like another law. Every time we try to do something good, that bad part of us wants to take control and make us go wrong.

23but there is a big fight going on inside us. That bad part of us makes its own law. It makes us think the wrong way. It makes us its prisoners so that we can’t do the things we really want to do.

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Cross References

Psalms 1:2They love God’s word, and they listen to it. They think about God’s word in the day time and in the night time.

Psalms 40:8God, it makes me really happy to do everything that you want. I always think about your laws and do what they say.

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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