Romans 7:22

"I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present."

Key Reflection

Paul describes a struggle within himself where despite his genuine desires to do what is right, he finds that sinful actions persist. This captures the tension between human will and the reality of sin's dominance in fallen humanity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 22. For I delight. The word used here (sunhdomai) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means, to rejoice with any one; and expresses not only approbation of the understanding, as the expression, "I consent unto the law," in Ro 7:16, but, more than that, it denotes sensible pleasure in the heart. It indicates not only intellectual assent, but emotion--an emotion of pleasure in the contemplation of the law. And this shows that the apostle is not speaking of an unrenewed man.

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