King James Version
Romans 7:22 in the King James Version says “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:” — study this verse from Romans chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
Romans 7:22 · KJV
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? the body: or, this body of death
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“in the law”
G3551law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of moses (including the volume); also of the gospel), or figurat
“of God”
G2316a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)
“after”
G2596(prepositionally) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined)
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