[There is] (1) therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who (2) walk not after the (a) flesh, but after the Spirit. (1) A conclusion of all the former discussion, from (Romans 1:16) to this verse: seeing that we, being justified by faith in Christ, obtain remission of sins a... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) For the (b) law of the Spirit of (c) life in (d) Christ Jesus hath (e) made me free from the law of sin and death. (3) A preventing of an objection: seeing that the power of the Spirit is in us is so weakly, how may we gather by this that there is no condemnation for those that have that power?... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) For what the law (f) could not do, in that it was weak through the (g) flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of (h) sinful flesh, and for (i) sin, (k) condemned sin in the flesh: (4) He does not use an argument here, but expounds the mystery of sanctification, which is imputed to us: b... [ Continue Reading ]
That the (l) righteousness of the law might be fulfilled (5) in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (l) The very substance of the law of God might be fulfilled, or that same which the law requires, that we may be found just before God: for if with our justification there is join... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) For they that are after the (m) flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (6) A reason why walking after the flesh does not agree to those who are grafted into Christ, but to walk after the Spirit agrees and is proper for them: because,... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. (7) He demonstrates what follows from his argument: because whatever the flesh savours, that brings about death: and whatever the Spirit savours, that is conducive to joy and everlasting life.... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: (9) for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (8) A reason and proof why the wisdom of the flesh is death: because, he says, it is the enemy of God. (9) A reason why the wisdom of the flesh is enmity to God, because it neith... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (10) The conclusion. Therefore they that walk after the flesh cannot please God: by which it follows that they are not grafted into Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (11) He addresses the others, that is, those who walk after the Spirit, of whom we have to understand contrary things to the former: an... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) And if Christ [be] in you, the (n) body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. (12) He confirms the faithful against the relics of flesh and sin, granting that these things are yet (as appears by the corruption which is in them) having effects on one of th... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that (o) dwelleth in you. (13) A confirmation of the former sentence. You have the very same Spirit which Christ has: therefore a... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (14) An exhortation to oppress the flesh daily more and more by the power of the Spirit of regeneration, because (he says) you are debtors to God, in that you have received so many benefits from him.... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (15) Another reason for the profit that follows: for those who battle and fight valiantly will have everlasting life.... [ Continue Reading ]
(16) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (16) A confirmation of this reason: for they are the children of God who are governed by his Spirit, therefore they will have everlasting life.... [ Continue Reading ]
(17) For ye have not received the (p) spirit of bondage again (q) to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of (r) adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (17) He declares and expounds (as an aside) in these two verses by what right this name, to be called the children of God, is given to the believ... [ Continue Reading ]
(18) And if children, then (s) heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; (19) if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. (18) A proof of what follows from the confirmation: because he who is the son of God enjoys God with Christ. (s) Partakers of our Father... [ Continue Reading ]
(20) For I (t) reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (20) Thirdly, that this glory which we look for surpasses a thousand times the misery of our afflictions. (t) All being well considered, I gather.... [ Continue Reading ]
(21) For the earnest expectation of the (u) creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (21) Fourthly, he plainly teaches us that we will certainly be renewed from that confusion and horrible deformation of the whole world, which cannot be continual, as it was not this way at the beg... [ Continue Reading ]
For the creature was made subject to (x) vanity, not (y) willingly, but by reason (z) of him who hath subjected [the same] in (a) hope, (x) Is subject to a vanishing and disappearing state. (y) Not by their natural inclination. (z) That they should obey the Creator's commandment, whom it pleased... [ Continue Reading ]
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the (b) bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (b) From the corruption which they are now subject to, they will be delivered and changed into the blessed state of incorruption, which will be revealed when the... [ Continue Reading ]
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and (c) travaileth in pain together until now. (c) By this word is meant not only exceeding sorrow, but also the fruit that follows from it.... [ Continue Reading ]
(22) And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within (d) ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], (e) the redemption of our body. (22) Fifthly, if the rest of the world looks for a restoring, groaning as it were for it and that... [ Continue Reading ]
(23) For we are saved by hope: but (f) hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (23) Sixthly, hope is necessarily joined with faith: seeing then that we believe those things which we are not yet in possession of, and hope does not refer to the thing that is pre... [ Continue Reading ]
(24) Likewise the Spirit also (g) helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh (h) intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (24) Seventhly, there is no reason why we should faint under the burden of afflictions, seeing... [ Continue Reading ]
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the (i) mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints (k) according to [the will of] God. (i) What sighs and sobs proceed from the impulse of his Spirit. (k) Because he teaches the godly to pray according to God's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
(25) And we know that (l) all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] (m) purpose. (25) Eighthly, we are not afflicted, either by chance or to our harm, but by God's providence for our great profit: who as he chose us from the beginning, so... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover whom he did (n) predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (n) He uses the past tense for the present time, as the Hebrews use, who sometimes describe something that is to come by using the past tense, to si... [ Continue Reading ]
(26) What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? (26) Ninethly, we have no reason to fear that the Lord will not give us whatever is profitable for us, seeing that he has not spared his own Son to save us.... [ Continue Reading ]
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely (o) give us all things? (o) Give us freely.... [ Continue Reading ]
(27) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] (p) God that justifieth. (27) A most glorious and comfortable conclusion of the whole second part of this epistle, that is of the treatise of justification. There are no accusers that we have need to be afraid of before God, seeing... [ Continue Reading ]
Who shall separate us from the love of (q) Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (q) With which Christ loves us.... [ Continue Reading ]
(r) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (r) We not only overcome so great and many miseries and calamities, but are also more than conquerors in all of them.... [ Continue Reading ]