22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Other Translations of Romans 7:22

New International Version

22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law;

English Standard Version

22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

The Message

22 I truly delight in God's commands,

New King James Version

22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

New Living Translation

22 I love God's law with all my heart.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Romans 7:22

Commentary on Romans 7:18-22

(Read Romans 7:18-22)

The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace. But the whole good on which his will is fully bent, he does not do; sin ever springing up in him, through remaining corruption, he often does evil, though against the fixed determination of his will. The motions of sin within grieved the apostle. If by the striving of the flesh against the Spirit, was meant that he could not do or perform as the Spirit suggested, so also, by the effectual opposition of the Spirit, he could not do what the flesh prompted him to do. How different this case from that of those who make themselves easy with regard to the inward motions of the flesh prompting them to evil; who, against the light and warning of conscience, go on, even in outward practice, to do evil, and thus, with forethought, go on in the road to perdition! For as the believer is under grace, and his will is for the way of holiness, he sincerely delights in the law of God, and in the holiness which it demands, according to his inward man; that new man in him, which after God is created in true holiness.

16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

Other Translations of Ephesians 3:16

New International Version

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

English Standard Version

16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

The Message

16 I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit - not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength -

New King James Version

16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

New Living Translation

16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ephesians 3:16

Commentary on Ephesians 3:13-19

(Read Ephesians 3:13-19)

The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are the best blessings. Strength from the Spirit of God in the inner man; strength in the soul; the strength of faith, to serve God, and to do our duty. If the law of Christ is written in our hearts, and the love of Christ is shed abroad there, then Christ dwells there. Where his Spirit dwells, there he dwells. We should desire that good affections may be fixed in us. And how desirable to have a fixed sense of the love of God in Christ to our souls! How powerfully the apostle speaks of the love of Christ! The breadth shows its extent to all nations and ranks; the length, that it continues from everlasting to everlasting; the depth, its saving those who are sunk into the depths of sin and misery; the height, its raising them up to heavenly happiness and glory. Those who receive grace for grace from Christ's fulness, may be said to be filled with the fulness of God. Should not this satisfy man? Must he needs fill himself with a thousand trifles, fancying thereby to complete his happiness?