Romans 7:22-23

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

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6 songs meet this passage

  • “I struggle with my inner man”

    Streets · Doja Cat

    resonates with Romans 7:22-23

    Her opening admission of inner struggle echoes Paul's own wrestling with a divided self, though she never names what she's fighting for.

  • Ho Chi Minh · Bas

    resonates with Romans 7:19-24

    The whole song mirrors Paul's cry of doing the very thing he hates and feeling trapped in a body warring against itself, though here without the turn toward deliverance.

  • Good News · Shaboozey

    resonates with Romans 7:19-24

    Captures the same tension of wanting to do right while feeling stuck doing wrong, aching for rescue from himself.

  • Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug) · Post Malone

    resonates with Romans 7:19-24

    Paul's cry 'who will deliver me' captures the same trapped, self-aware ache running under the whole song, though it finds no answer here.

  • “Pray for peace, but I need the thrill”

    Ain't No Love In Oklahoma · Luke Combs

    strains against Romans 7:21-24

    Unlike Paul's cry for deliverance from this conflict, the narrator seems resigned to the tension, wanting peace but still preferring the thrill, leaving the struggle unresolved.

  • “There's a war going on inside of me tonight”

    War of Change · Thousand Foot Krutch

    resonates with Romans 7:23

    Paul's description of an internal battle between flesh and spirit parallels the song's central image of inward conflict.

Elsewhere in Romans 7