Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the body's actions, you will live.
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12So then, brothers, we are debtors, but not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Cross References
Romans 6:21At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 8:4He did this in order that the requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us, we who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 5:19Now the works of the sinful nature are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
Galatians 6:8For he who plants seed to his own sinful nature, from the sinful nature will gather in destruction. The one who plants seed to the Spirit, from the Spirit will gather in eternal life from the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, for it is by him that 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 →