Romans 8:2
for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of sin and death.
Open English Bible (US)
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 for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;
Cross References
Psalms 51:12Give me back the joy of your help, with a willing spirit sustain me.
John 4:10“If you knew of the gift of God,” replied Jesus, “and who it is that is saying to you ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 6:63It is the Spirit that gives life; human strength achieves nothing. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is life.
John 8:32and you will find out the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Romans 3:27What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.
Romans 6:14For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.
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 →