For I delight in (συνηδομα γαρ). Old verb, here alone in N.T., with associative instrumental case, "I rejoice with the law of God,…

For I delight. The word used here (sunēdomai) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means to rejoice with anyone,…

I delight.—“I delight in (and with) the Law of God.” I sympathise with and approve of it after the inward man, that is, in the hig…

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itse…

Paul now summarizes what has gone before. “So I find this law at work.” So far, “law” (GK 3795) meant the law of Moses, but here it has a specializ…

For I consent to the law of God, etc. Here then you see what sort of division there is in pious souls, from which arises that con…

For I delight in the law of God
This an unregenerate man cannot do; he does not like its commands, they are disagree…

The purer and holier the heart is, the more keenly it will perceive the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holine and …

1. After showing that the law is good because it is consistent with reason, the Apostle now draws two conclusions based on the two things he…