Romans 8:13
for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors - but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
14For only those are sons of God who are led by God’s Spirit.
Cross References
Romans 6:21What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 7:5For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.
Romans 8:4in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,
Galatians 6:8The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.
Ephesians 4:30And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been 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 →