Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

3For what was impossible for the law to do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

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Cross References

John 4:10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water.”

John 6:63It is the Spirit who makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

John 8:32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

Romans 3:27Where then is boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 1 Slaves to Righteousness

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 →

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