Romans 8:13
For 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.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
14For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.
Cross References
Romans 6:21At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.
Romans 7:5For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Romans 8:4in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly, but by our spiritual natures.
Galatians 5:19Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;
Galatians 6:8He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.
Ephesians 4:30And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation 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 →