“ For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: ”
For I delight - The word used here Συνήδομαι Sunēdomai, occurs no where else in the New Testament. It properly means to rejoice with anyone; and expresses not only approbation of the unders...
For I delight in the law of God after the (b) inward man: (b) The inner man and the new man are the same, and are compared and contrasted with the old man; and neither do these words "inward man" si...
Autobiography of the Man under Law. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past...
delight. Greek. sunedomai. Only here. Compare Psalms 1:2 ; Psalms 112:1 ; Psalms 119:35 (Septuagint) inward . Greek. eso . Adverb used as Adjective. Compare 2 Corinthians 4:16 . Eph 3:16....
22. For I consent (230) to the law of God, etc. Here then you see what sort of division there is in pious souls, from which arises that contest between the spirit and the flesh, which...
DISCOURSE: 1854 SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS OF BELIEVERS Romans 7:18-23 . I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which...
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: I delight in the law of God after the inward man - Every Jew, and every unregenerate man, who receives the Old Testament as a revelation from God...
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man - q.d., 'from the bottom of my heart.' The word х suneedomai ( G4913 )] used her...
The Inadequacy of the Law to save 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20-21 ; Romans 4:15 ; Romans 5:20 . In this chapter ( Romans 7:7-2...
(14-25) Further and detailed proof why it was that though the Law appealed to all that was best in man, still he could not obey it.
Chapter 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He...
the Conflict Within Romans 7:14-25 The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been revealed to it as the...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
For I delight in the law of God ,.... This an unregenerate man cannot do; he does not like its commands, they are disagreeable to his corrupt nature; and as it is a threatening, cursing, damning law...
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: Ver. 22. I delight ] Germanicus reigned in the Romans' hearts, but Tiberius in the provinces. So here.
For I delight in the law of God On this verse, chiefly, rests the opinion that the apostle, in the latter part of this chapter, is describing the character of a regenerate man. Its votaries think t...
Change of "Husbands" But a Struggle for Freedom In Romans 7:1-25 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating...
Conflict between Grace and Corruption. A. D. 58. 14b -- But I am carnal, sold under sin. 1...
This shows yet more expressly that the apostle speaketh in the person of a regenerate man, or of himself as regenerate. Certainly, to delight in the law of God is an inseparable property of such a...
‘I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 7:14 .—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.” Romans 7:15 .—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up,...
Romans 7:14-25 Dualism in the Life. I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms "flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical sense conferred upon th...
Romans 7:1-3 . Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the la...
Romans 7:1 . I speak to them that know the law, with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as lon...
To whom does the passage refer? To the unregenerate.-- It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen a...
EXPOSITION Romans 7:1-45 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that death cancels the claims of human law on a...
The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:
1 Peter 3:4 ; 2 Corinthians 4:16 ; Colossians 3:9 ; Ephesians 3:16 ; Hebrews 8:10 ; Isaiah 51:7 ; Job 23:12 ; John 4:34 ; Psalms 1:2 ; Psalms 19:8-10 ; Psalms 40:8 ; Romans 2:29 ; Romans...
The Inward Conflict Romans 7:7-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a hus...
For I delight in the law of God — This is more than "I consent to," Romans 7:16 . The day of liberty draws near. The inward man — Called the mind, Romans 7:23 , Romans 7:25 .