Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 7:22

"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" — Romans 7:22 (ASV)

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 higher part of my being.

“The inward man” corresponds nearly, though not quite, to the “law of my mind,” in the next verse. It stands rather midway between it and the spirit.

The mind is the moral and rational faculties considered as moral and rational. “The inward man” is the higher part of human nature considered as capable of receiving divine grace. The “spirit” is the same when actually brought into communion with God.