Romans 8:2

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

Family 35 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

1Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,

3Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh,

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Cross References

John 4:10Jesus answered and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

John 6:63The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not benefit anything. The words that I speak to you are spirit, are Life.

John 8:32and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”

Romans 3:27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law, that of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Romans 6:14Really, sin must not rule over you, because 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 →

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