Romans 8:10

The results of the presence of Christ in the soul.

The body is dead because of sin. — Here the word is evidently used of physical death. The doom entailed by sin still, indeed, attaches to the body — but only to the body. The body, indeed, must die, but there the hold of sin upon the Christian ends; it cannot touch him farther.

The Spirit is life because of righteousness. — But turn to another side of human nature; take it in its highest part and faculty — the spirit. That is full of vitality because it is full of righteousness, first imputed and then real. Life and righteousness are correlative terms, the one involving the other.