Joint heirs — That we may know it is a great inheritance which God will give us for he hath given a great one to his Son. If we suffer with him — Willingly and cheerfully, for righteousness' sake. This is a new proposition, referring to what follows.
Verse 17. _AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS_] For the _legitimate_ children can alone inherit the estate. This is not an estate to which they succeed in consequence of the death of a former possessor; it i...
AND IF CHILDREN - If adopted into his family. THEN HEIRS - That is, he will treat us as sons. An heir is one who succeeds to an estate. The meaning here is, that if we sustain the relation of sons to...
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. ...
So Christian men stand toward life and death (Romans 8:1); how _toward God?_ ROMANS 8:14. Justified (Romans 8:3) and sanctified (Romans 8:6), they are
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...
THEN HEIRS. heirs also. HEIRS. See Romans 4:13. HEIRS OF GOD. heirs indeed of God. JOINT-HEIRS. Greek. _sunkleronomos._ Here, Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 11:9;...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_and if children_, &c. Here St Paul reasons onward from the primary fact, witnessed to by the Spirit, of the Christian's sonship. He has in view now, more than ever yet in the Epistle, the hope of ete...
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...
Continues the thought of 15 and so the explanation of ζήσεσθε: if children we share the life. ΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΟΙ. The son has a part in the possessions of the father; cf. Galatians 4:1 f. ΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΟΙ ΘΕΟΥ͂. O...
ΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΟΣ (G98) наследник. Павел все еще заботится о доказательствах несомненности будущего спасения и говорит, что, раз мы наследники Бога, сомневаться в нашем наследстве не приходится (Barrett), Σ...
DISCOURSE: 1872 THE PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S CHILDREN Romans 8:17. _If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and jointheirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified toget...
IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER, &C.— Observe how prudently the Apostle advances to the harsh affair of _suffering;_ he does not mention it, till he had raised their thoughts to the higher object of joy and p...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:16-17. The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be th...
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS, [ kai (G2532) kleeron...
__ 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...
8:17 with (a-25) Lit. 'If we co-suffer that we may be co-glorified,' but this is hardly English....
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...
HEIRS] Under Roman law, 'a will that left the property away from the children was invalid' (Ramsay). IF SO BE, etc.] cp. 2 Timothy 2:11., and Mark 8:34; Colossians 1:24;...
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....
One characteristic of the son is that he is his father’s heir. So it is with the Christian. He, too, has an inheritance — an inheritance of glory which he will share with Christ. But he must not be su...
(14-17) This life in the Spirit implies a special relation to God — that of sons. I say of sons; for when you first received the Holy Ghost it was no spirit of bondage and reign of terror to which 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,...
Yet this last is involved, for “if children, also heirs”. _Cf._ Galatians 4:7 where κληρονόμος is relative to υἱὸς; and all the passages in which the Spirit is regarded as “the earnest” of an inherita...
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...
(18) And if children, then (s) heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; (19) if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. (18) A proof of what follows from the...
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...
The apostle has proved the fact of our being sons or children, first by the filial fecling produced in us by the Spirit, and then by the direct witness of the Spirit Himself. He can now conclude his a...
“ _The Spirit itself beareth witness to our spirit, that we are children of God. Now if children, then heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also...
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...
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...
_HEIRS OF GOD_ ‘Heirs of God.’ Romans 8:17 Plainly an heir is one who has some future property coming to him—a property which he will come to, and which no one can take from him. It is his for cert...
_SUFFERING THE PRELUDE TO GLORY_ ‘If so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.’ Romans 8:17 These words had a special meaning and application for the days of the Apostl...
17._And if children_, _etc. _By an argument, taken from what is annexed or what follows, he proves that our salvation consists in having God as our Father. It is for children that inheritance is appoi...
"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...
AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS,.... Children, whether natural or adopted, are heirs to their parents, and according to the Roman laws, which some think the apostle here respects, whether male or female;...
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with _him_, that we may be also glorified together. Ver. 17. _And if sons, then heirs_] All God's sons...
_And if children, then heirs_ Those that are really the children of God by adoption and grace, are not only under his peculiar direction, protection, and care, and shall be supplied with all things wh...
IF CHILDREN, THEN-JOINT - HEIRS WITH CHRIST; entitled to be, with Christ, partakers for ever of the blessings of Jehovah's kingdom. IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM; deny ourselves for his sake, meet...
AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS; HEIRS OF GOD AND JOIN THEIRS WITH CHRIST; IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM, THAT WE MAY BE ALSO GLORIFIED TOGETHER. Having pictured the blessed state of the Christians, th...
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...
Spirit - Leads us "guard, guide and direct" Makes us sons of God 15 What do you have? Spirit of bondage Fear Spirit of adoption "Abba, Father" 16 Two spirits A. The Spirit = Holy Spirit B. Our...
AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS; HEIRS OF GOD, AND JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST; IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM, THAT WE MAY BE ALSO GLORIFIED WITH HIM. "IF CHILDREN" -and being. 'child', demands that we pat...
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...
AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS; there is a parallel text in GALATIANS 4:7. It is not so with the children of earthly princes: see 2 CHRONICLES 21:3. JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST; or co-heirs with Christ; he i...
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. [In interpreting this passage we should remember that...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans And why have I also surrendered myself to death, to fire, to the sword, to the wild beasts? But, [in fact,] he who is near to the sword is near to God; he that i...
Romans 8:17 and G1161 if G1487 children G5043 then G2532 heirs G2818 God G3303 G2316 and G1161 heirs...
‘And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.' Furthermore the Spirit bears witness to even more. H...
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...
Romans 8:17. AND IF CHILDREN, ALSO HEIRS. Comp. the similar, but fuller statement in Galatians 4:7. HEIRS OF GOD. The kingdom of glory is their inheritance. ‘As He Himself will be all in all, so shal...
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...
JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST (συνκληρονομο Χριστου). A late rare double compound, in Philo, an Ephesian inscription of the imperial period (Deissmann, _Light from the Ancient East_, p. 92), papyri of the...
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 8:17 I. First, the text tells us, No inheritance without sonship. In general terms, spiritual blessings can only be given to those who are in a certain spiritual condition. Always and necessari...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Not those who say they are «the sons of God,» but those who undoubtedly prove that they are, by being led, influe...
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...
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...
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._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ You can judge yourself, dear friend, by this test. Do you follow the Spirit's leading? Do you desire continually...
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 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
Romans 8:15. _For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;_ You did receive it once. You needed it. You were in sin, and it was well for you when sin became bondage to you. It was gr...
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...
SINCE WE ARE HIS CHILDREN. He speaks to those who can look back to a point in time where they were adopted as God's children. See note on Colossians 2:12. WE WILL POSSESS THE BLESSINGS. A son inherits...
_And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ._ SONSHIP: CERTAINTY AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT It is not easy to imagine a more cautious, lawyer-like record than that of Lord Eldo...
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. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:17 A willingness to follow Christ in suffering is another sign of being God’s children. ⇐ ⇔
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:15.—The Chaldee and Greek words for “father” are used so as to affect both Jews and Gentiles. “Abba,” like “papa,” can be spoken with the mouth, and properly, therefore, cha...
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 2:9; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 1 Peter 1:4;...
Joint - heirs. Roman law made all children, including adopted ones, equal heritors. Jewish law gave a double portion to the eldest son. The Roman law was naturally in Paul's mind, and suits the contex...
Our apostle having asserted and insured the believer's adoption in the foregoing verse, doth in this verse infer the certainty of his inheritance: IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS. Learn hence, That all God's...