Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 8:13
The deeds of the flesh — Not only evil actions, but evil desires, tempers, thoughts. If ye mortify — Kill, destroy these. Ye shall live — The life of faith more abundantly here, and hereafter the life of glory.
The deeds of the flesh — Not only evil actions, but evil desires, tempers, thoughts. If ye mortify — Kill, destroy these. Ye shall live — The life of faith more abundantly here, and hereafter the life of glory.
Verse Romans 8:13. _FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE_] Though μελλετε αποθνησκειν may mean, _ye shall afterwards die_, and this seems to indicate a _temporal_ death, yet not exclusively of...
FOR IF YOU LIVE ... - If you live to indulge your carnal propensities, you will sink to eternal death; Romans 7:23. THROUGH THE SPIRIT - By the aid of the Spirit; by cherishing and cultivating his in...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE NEW MAN IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 8:1. Therefore now sin's captive escapes! No condemnation: Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20; Romans 7:14 was _all_ co
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
So then, brothers, a duty is laid upon us--and that duty is not to our own sinful human nature, to live according to the principles of that same nature; for, if you live according to the principles of...
SHALL DIE. Literally are about to die. Revised Version, must die. THROUGH. Dative case. No preposition. DO MORTIFY. are putting to death. Greek. _thanatoo._ See Romans 7:4. DEEDS. practices. Greek....
_ye shall die_ Lit. YE ARE ABOUT TO DIE; on the way to die. The phrase indicates a sure effect from the given cause. _through the Spirit_ The Holy Spirit; see next verse, and note above on Romans 8:4...
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
ΜΈΛΛΕΤΕ�. The periphrastic future of the durative present—you will continue in or be in a state of death; ἀποθανεῖσθε = you will die, of the single event; cf. Moulton, p. 114; Burton, § 72. Consequent...
ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΕΙΝ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G518) умирать. _Inf._ как дополнение основного гл. ΠΡΆΞΙΣ (G4234) дело, деяпие. ΘΑΝΑΤΟΫ́ΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΘΑΝΑΤΌΩ (G2289) подвергать смерти, ΖΉΣΕ...
DISCOURSE: 1868 MORTIFICATION OF SIN Romans 8:13. _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_. IT is of infinite importanc...
YE SHALL DIE— Μελλετε αποθνησκειν, _ye shall die hereafter;_ namely, the second death at the last day. The wicked Christian professor is _nigh unto the curse; whose end is, to be burned._ See Hebrews...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:12-15. So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: Romans 8:13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the d...
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. FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE - in the sense of Romans 6:...
__ Conciliation-Individual 11 Mortal bodies are such as are dying, in a physical sense. Their vivification cannot refer to the future resurrection, but to the present power of God's Spirit to use an...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
SHALL DIE] RV 'must die,' i.e. spiritually. DEEDS OF THE BODY] i.e. so far as the body is not under the dominion of the spirit....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(12-17) These verses form a hortatory application of the foregoing, with further development of the idea to live after and in the Spirit....
IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT ... — If under the influence of the Spirit you reduce to a condition of deadness and atrophy all those practices to which the impulses of your material nature would prompt you...
CHAPTER 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his Inspirer,...
CHILDREN AND HEIRS OF GOD Romans 8:10 The Spirit here is of course the Holy Spirit, by whom Christ our Lord lives within us. It is passing wonderful that as the life which throbs in the heart beats a...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
(15) 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. (15) Another reason for the profit that follows: for those who battle...
EIGHTEENTH PASSAGE (ROMANS 8:12-17). FREED FROM SIN AND DEATH, THE CHRISTIAN BECOMES SON AND HEIR. Victory over sin and death once decided by the reign of the Holy Spirit, condemnation is not only ta...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
VV. 12 AND 13 form the transition from the preceding passage to this. The life of the Spirit is not realized in the believer without his concurrence merely from the fact that the Spirit has once been...
In this way the regenerate man himself would go on to death. So the flesh will reward us for our fidelity in discharging our debt to it. Μέλλετε : “there is nothing for you but to die; such is the onl...
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. ...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
13._For if ye will live after the flesh, etc. _He adds a threatening, in order more effectually to shake off their torpor; by which also they are fully confuted who boast of justification by faith wit...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE,.... Such persons are dead, whilst they live, and shall die a second or an eternal death, if grace prevent not. It may be asked, whether one that has recei...
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. Ver. 13. _If we live after the flesh_] We must not think to pass _E coeno a...
_Therefore, brethren_ As if he had said, Since we have received such benefits, and expect still more and greater, _we are debtors_ We are under obligations; _not to the flesh_ Not to our animal appeti...
YE SHALL DIE; the death not of the body merely, but of the soul-a death which shall last for ever. Body and soul shall die the second, an eternal death. THROUGH THE SPIRIT; through the influence and...
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....
The Spirit of adoption in the Christians:...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
Play - "What If...? Live after flesh Die Mortify deeds of the body Live...
FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE MUST DIE; BUT IF BY THE SPIRIT YE PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE. "YE MUST DIE" -i.e. spiritually. Paul is talking to Christians. 'Are Christians...
10-17 If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by faith. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for...
IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE; viz. eternally, and never partake of the glorious resurrection before spoken of. The godly themselves need this caution; they must not think, that because the...
for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. [So then, brethren, because of the relation which we sustain to Christ, and beca...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And again he says, in the Epistle to the Romans, "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die."[77] Origen Against Celsus Book V and we use every effort to "mortif...
Romans 8:13 For G1063 if G1487 live G2198 (G5719) according G2596 flesh G4561 will G3195 (G5719) die...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN FLESH AND SPIRIT IS CONSIDERED, LEADING UP TO THE ASSURANCE OF LIFE THROUGH THE TRIUNE GOD AND A DECLARATION OF OUR SONSHIP AND HEIRSHIP (8:5-17). Reference to ‘walking not after...
‘For if you live after the flesh, you must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.' Indeed if we do live after the flesh we ‘must die', both in this world and...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
1. _The Life in the Spirit contrasted with the Life after the Flesh._ The Christian is free from condemnation (Romans 8:1), because he is freed from the law of sin (Romans 8:2), a result which the law...
YE MUST DIE (μελλετε αποθνησκειν). Present indicative of μελλω, to be about to do and present active infinitive of αποθνησκω, to die. "Ye are on the point of dying." Eternal death.BY THE SPIRIT ...
MORTIFY Make to die the doings of the body....
Romans 8:12 St. Paul is telling us here that there are two masters, either of whom we may serve, but one or other of whom we must serve. Christ is one, sin is the other. Christ is the Lord of our spir...
Romans 8:12 From Present Life to Future Glory. I. The leading of the Holy Spirit is no leading at all unless it be efficacious. If we are led by the Spirit, that means that to some extent we are day...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
This wonderful chapter is the very cream of the cream of Holy Scripture. What a grand key-note the apostle strikes in the first verse! Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them whic...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
FOR IF. After dying with Christ, you could return to sin and let your human nature drag you down to death (2 Peter 2:20-22). BUT IF, BY THE SPIRIT. Note it is not your _mortal body_ which you _kill,_...
_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._ SIN AND DEATH, OR GRACE AND LIFE I. If sin live in us, we shall die. 1....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:13 God and believers each have a role in sanctification. It must occur BY THE SPIRIT and his power, but YOU PUT TO DEATH shows that one must take an active role in battling sin...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:1 Paul celebrates the new life of the Spirit that Christians enjoy as a result of Christ’s saving work. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:5.—The state is indicated in Romans 7:25, when the mind can serve the law of God, and only the flesh is subject to the law of sin. Romans 8:6. CARNALLY MINDED (φρόνημα τῆς σ...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 Corinthians 9:27; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:11; Colossians 3:5;...
Ye shall die [μ ε λ λ ε τ ε α π ο θ ν η σ κ ε ι ν]. The expression is stronger than the simple future of the verb. It indicates a necessary consequence. So Rev., ye must. Mortify [θ α ν α τ ο υ τ ε]....
Our apostle here adds. farther reason why. Christian should not live after the flesh; before, an arguement was drawn A DEBITO, now A DAMNO: He told us in the former verse we owed nothing to the flesh,...