Romans 7:22

In his inmost self Paul delights in God's law. His deepest desires are aligned with what God commands.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
• Ps 119:47–48And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Heb 8:10For 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:
• Ps 119:97–104O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
• 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Ps 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 19:8–10The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
• Ps 119:167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
• 1 Pet 3:4But 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.
• Eph 3:16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
• Rom 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Ps 119:72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
• Ps 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
• Ps 119:111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
• Ps 119:127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Isa 51:7Hearken 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.
• Ps 119:113I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
• Col 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Rom 2:29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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