Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
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12Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh.
14For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
Cross References
Romans 6:21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.
Romans 8:4so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,
Galatians 6:8For whatever a man will have sown, that also shall he reap. For whoever sows in his flesh, from the flesh he shall also reap corruption. But whoever sows in the Spirit, from the Spirit he shall reap eternal life.
Ephesians 4:30And do not be willing to grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed, unto the day of redemption.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:11-17
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 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 dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the… Read the whole commentary →