Romans 8:9
You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8They who are earthly cannot please God.
Cross References
Luke 11:13If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!”
John 3:34For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God’s own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.
John 17:9I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own —
Romans 8:11And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give Life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.
1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore let no one boast about men; for all things are yours —
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 →