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 Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
• Ps 119:47–48I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
• Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Ps 119:97–104How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
• 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Ps 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
• Ps 19:8–10Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
• Ps 119:167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
• 1 Pet 3:4but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
• Eph 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Ps 119:72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD
• Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
• Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
• Ps 119:127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
• Isa 51:7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law: Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
• Ps 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
• Col 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Rom 2:29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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