Romans 8:9
You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
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In Context
8So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.
10But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness.
Cross References
Luke 11:13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
John 3:34For He whom God sent speaks God's words, because God does not give the Spirit by measure.
John 17:9I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given me, because they are yours.
Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 3:21So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours:
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 →