Romans 8:12

Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

In Context

11And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

13For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.

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Cross References

Romans 6:2No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

1 Peter 4:2that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

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 →

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