Romans 8:13
- (For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are to die. But if, by the Spirit, ye mortify the practices of the body, ye will live.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
12Now we are debtors, my Brethren, not to the flesh, that we should walk according to the flesh:
14For they who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God:)
Cross References
Romans 6:21And what harvest had ye then, in that of which ye are now ashamed? For the result thereof is death.
Romans 7:5For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.
Romans 8:4so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us; since it is not in the flesh that we walk, but in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:19For the works of the flesh are known, which are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,
Galatians 6:8He who soweth in the flesh, reapeth from the flesh corruption: and he who soweth in the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Ephesians 4:30And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are 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 →