Romans 8:2
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
In Context
1There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Cross References
John 4:10Jesus answered and said to her: If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.
John 6:63It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
John 8:32and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:2-10
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after… Read the whole commentary →