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Romans 8:13

For if ye live after (or according to) the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye by the Spirit slay the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

In Context

12Therefore, brethren, we be debtors, not to the flesh, (so) that we live after (or according to) the flesh.

14For whoever be led by the Spirit of God, these be the sons of God.

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Cross References

Romans 6:21Therefore what fruit had ye then in those things, in which ye shame now? For the end of them is death. (And so what fruit had ye then in those things, of which ye now be ashamed? For their end is death.)

Romans 7:5For when we were in (the) flesh, (the) passions of sins, that were by the law (or which were stirred up by the Law), wrought in our members, to bear fruit to death.

Romans 8:4(so) that the justifying of the law were fulfilled in us, (so) that [we] go not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Galatians 5:19And the works of the flesh be open, which be fornication, uncleanness, unchastity, lechery,

Galatians 6:8For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh he shall reap corruption; but he that soweth in the Spirit, of the Spirit he shall reap everlasting life.

Ephesians 4:30And do not ye make the Holy Ghost of God sorry, [or heavy], in which ye be marked in the day of redemption. (And do not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in whom, and by whom, ye be sealed unto 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 →

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