We are debtors. — We are under an obligation. Observe that in the lively sequence of thought the second clause of the antithesis is suppressed, “We are under an obligation, not to the flesh (but to the Spirit).”
Verse Romans 8:12. _THEREFORE, BRETHREN_, c.] Dr. Taylor is of opinion that the apostle having spoken _separately_, both to Jews and Gentiles, concerning holiness and the obligations to it, now addres...
WE ARE DEBTORS - We owe it as a matter of solemn obligation. This obligation arises, * From the fact that the Spirit dwells in us; * Because the design of his indwelling is to purify us; * Becau...
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
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...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
THEREFORE. So then. DEBTORS. Greek. _opheiletes,_ as Romans 1:14; Romans 15:27....
_debtors_ An emphatic word in the verse. Q. d., "We _are debtors_to the Giver of the Spirit; to the flesh we indeed _owe nothing_, for its result is death." The first part of this statement is unexpre...
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...
ἌΡΑ ΟΥ̓͂Ν covers the whole argument from Romans 8:12 and proceeds to conclusions as to Christian conduct; but this purpose is interrupted by the thought of the Spirit and the wide bearings of the rela...
ΟΦΕΙΛΈΤΗΣ (G3781) имеющий моральный долг, должник (_см._ Romans 1:14). ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) в согласии с чем-л. или кем-л. ΖΗΝ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Эпэкз. _inf._ используется для объяснен...
DISCOURSE: 1867 GOD’S DWELLING IN US IS A MOTIVE TO HOLINESS Romans 8:12. _Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh_. IN the Scriptures, privilege and duty are i...
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, &C.— After the Apostle has separately and distinctly shewn how the affair ofsanctification or obligation to piety and holiness stands under the Gospel, both with regard to Jews an...
_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...
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE ARE DEBTORS, NOT TO THE FLESH, TO LIVE AFTER THE FLESH - q.d., 'Once we were sold under Sin ...
__ 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...
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...
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,...
f. The blessed condition and hopes of Christians, as described in these last verses, lay them under obligations: to whom, or to what? Not (Romans 8:12) to the flesh, to live according to it: to it the...
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...
(14) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (14) An exhortation to oppress the flesh daily more and more by the power of the Spirit of regeneration, because ...
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...
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...
_THE CHRISTIAN’S INDEBTEDNESS_ ‘Therefore, brethren, we are debtors.’ Romans 8:12 The love of Christ is the true philosopher’s stone. It turns everything to gold. To be a slave in St. Paul’s day me...
12._So then, brethren_, _etc. _This is the conclusion of what has been previously said; for if we are to renounce the flesh, we ought not to consent to it; and if the Spirit ought to reign in us, it i...
"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...
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE ARE DEBTORS,.... The appellation, "brethren", is not used, because they were so by nation or by blood, though many in the church at Rome were Jews; nor merely in a free familia...
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Ver. 12. _Not to the flesh_] We owe the flesh nothing but stripes, nothing but the blue eye that St Paul gave it. It mu...
_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...
ARE DEBTORS; owe obligation. NOT TO THE FLESH; because the minding of the flesh has never conferred upon us any real good, but always injury....
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE ARE DEBTORS, NOT TO THE FLESH, TO LIVE AFTER THE FLESH....
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...
Debtors - not to the flesh, Owe flesh nothing. Don't live after the fleshly nature....
__ Romans 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: "So then" -a summation, and an answer to those that would claim that Paul's gospel led to immoral living....
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...
THEREFORE; this illative particle sends us to the things before delivered: q.d. Seeing we are not in the flesh, but have the Spirit of God dwelling in us; not only sanctifying and enlivening our souls...
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh :...
Cyprian Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy t with spiritual vigour, lest, while we are turned back again to the conversation of the old man, we be entangled in deadly snares, even as the apostle, with fo...
Romans 8:12 Therefore G686 G3767 brethren G80 are G2070 (G5748) not G3756 flesh G4561 live G2198 ...
‘So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh,' So, says Paul, we must recognise that we are debtors. We owe it to God to be what we should be and yield our lives to Hi...
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...
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...
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...
WE ARE DEBTORS (οφειλετα εσμεν). See on Galatians 5:3; Romans 1:14.NOT TO THE FLESH (ου τη σαρκ). Negative ου goes with preceding verb and τη σαρκ, not with the infinitive του ζηιν....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION. Our HOPE in Christ obligates us to him! But we have no such obligation to our human nature....
_Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live after the flesh._ THE CHRISTIAN--A DEBTOR I. How are we to understand this. We are debtors-- 1. To all times. (1) To the past. To such...
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 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Peter 4:3;...
We are not debtors to the flesh — We ought not to follow it....
That is, seeing the Holy Spirit dwelleth in us, quickening our souls for the present, and raising our bodies for time to come, furnishing the one with grace here, and fitting the other for glory herea...