Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you shall die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Cross References
Romans 6:21So what fruit did you have then of which things you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
Romans 8:4so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lewdness,
Galatians 6:8For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.
Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for 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 →