Romans 8:13
because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live.
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In Context
12So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it;
14Because as many as are led by God's Spirit, these are God's sons
Cross References
Romans 6:21So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death!
Romans 7:5Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce 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 obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
Galatians 6:8—he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit.
Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with 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 →