Romans 8:14

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

In Context

13for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but a spirit of adoption as sons, by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

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Cross References

John 1:12But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 8:9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Romans 8:19The creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

Romans 9:26And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

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 →

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