Romans 8:13

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.

mortify put to death; an antithesis to the "death" just mentioned as the result of sin. The verb is in the present tense, and indicates a continued process of resistance and self-denial. For the metaphor, so strong and stern, cp. Galatians 5:24; Colossians 3:5.

the deeds of the body the doings, almost the dealings. (" Praktiken, Machinationen;" Meyer.) On "the body," as used here, see note on Romans 6:6. Cp. also the instructive parallel, Colossians 3:5, where "your limbs that are on the earth" = "the body of sin." This passage, and the parallels, shew how fully St Paul recognized the element of sinfulness as present still in the regenerate so present as to call for intense resistance.