Romans 8:9
But ye are not geven to the flesshe but to the sprete: yf so be that ye sprite of God dwell in you. If ther be eny man yt hath not ye sprite of Christ ye same is none of his.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
8So then they yt are geven to the flesshe canot please God.
10Yf Christ be in you the body is deed because of synne: but the sprite is lyfe for rightewesnes sake.
Cross References
Luke 11:13Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?
John 3:34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure.
John 17:9I praye for them and praye not for the worlde: but for the which thou hast geve me for they are thyne.
Romans 8:11Wherfore if the sprite of him that raysed vppe Iesus fro deeth dwell in you: even he that raysed vp Christ from deeth shall quycken youre mortall bodyes because that this sprite dwelleth in you.
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 →