Romans 7:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

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  • Ps 1:2 : 2 Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the LORD’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
  • 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
  • Ps 119:35 : 35 Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 I will find delight in your commands, which I love. 48 I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
  • Ps 19:8-9 : 8 The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life. 9 The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just. 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • Rom 2:29 : 29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.
  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 מ(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules. 100 I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts. 101 I stay away from every evil path, so that I might keep your instructions. 102 I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me. 103 Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey! 104 Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.
  • Ps 119:113 : 113 ס(Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.
  • Ps 119:167 : 167 I keep your rules; I love them greatly.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I long for your deliverance, O LORD; I find delight in your law.
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:5-21
    17 verses
    83%

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

    10and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

    11For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

    12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

    13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

    15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.

    16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

    17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

    18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

    19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

    20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

    21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

  • Rom 7:23-25
    3 verses
    82%

    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

    24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

    25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

  • Ps 40:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Then I say,“Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.

    8I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

  • Gal 2:19
    72%

    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

  • Rom 8:2-5
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    72%

    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

    4so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

  • Ps 119:47
    72%

    47I will find delight in your commands, which I love.

  • Ps 1:2
    72%

    2Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the LORD’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.

  • Ps 119:174
    70%

    174I long for your deliverance, O LORD; I find delight in your law.

  • Ps 119:70
    70%

    70Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

  • Rom 2:13-15
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    70%

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

    15They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

  • Ps 119:77
    70%

    77May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law.

  • Ps 119:35
    69%

    35Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it.

  • Isa 42:21
    69%

    21The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

  • Heb 10:16
    69%

    16“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

  • Ps 119:16
    69%

    16I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.

  • Rom 2:18
    69%

    18and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

  • Ps 119:143
    68%

    143Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.

  • Rom 8:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

  • Jer 31:33
    68%

    33“But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
    68%

    8But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

  • Heb 8:10
    68%

    10“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

  • Ps 37:4
    68%

    4Then you will take delight in the LORD, and he will answer your prayers.

  • Heb 10:7
    68%

    7“Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’”

  • Rom 2:29
    67%

    29but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

  • Rom 3:20
    67%

    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.