Romans 8:14

For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

In Context

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.

15You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

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Cross References

John 1:12But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

Romans 8:9You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

Romans 8:19For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 9:26And in the place where it was said to them, `No people of Mine are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving 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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