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Romans 8:2
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That is because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free. It made you free from the law that brings sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
For the lawe of the sprete yt bringeth life thorowe Iesus Christ hath delivered me fro the lawe of synne and deeth.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set meyou">[fn] free from the law of sin and death.John 8:36; Romans 6:18,22; 7:24-25; 1 Corinthians 15:45; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Galatians 2:19; 5:1;">[xr]
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free from the law that brings sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death.
for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.
For the lawe of the spirit of lijf in Crist Jhesu hath delyuerid me fro the lawe of synne, and of deth.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Why? Because the Torah of the Spirit, which produces this life in union with Messiah Yeshua, has set me free from the "Torah" of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life, which is in Jeshu Meshiha, hath set thee free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the spirit of life, which is in Jesus Messiah, hath emancipated thee from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Iesus, hath made me free from the law of sinne and death.
The power of the Holy Spirit has made me free from the power of sin and death. This power is mine because I belong to Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ has made you free from the law of sin and death.
For, the-law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath set thee free from the law of sin and of death; -
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.
For the lawe of the spirite of lyfe, through Iesus Christe, hath made me free from the lawe of sinne and death.
For the law of the Spirit, which brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has set me free from the law of sin and death.
because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death.
for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;
For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death.
for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Because you ride with him, the power of life he offers trumps the power of death sin offers.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For: Romans 3:27, John 8:36
Spirit: Romans 8:10, Romans 8:11, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 6:63, John 7:38, John 7:39, 1 Corinthians 15:45, 2 Corinthians 3:6, Revelation 11:11, Revelation 22:1
hath: Romans 6:18, Romans 6:22, Psalms 51:12, John 8:32, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Galatians 2:19, Galatians 5:1
from: Romans 5:21, Romans 7:21, Romans 7:24, Romans 7:25
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Deuteronomy 33:27 - thrust Job 33:4 - General Psalms 119:17 - I may live Psalms 119:25 - quicken Psalms 143:10 - thy spirit Isaiah 51:4 - a law Jeremiah 31:33 - I will Ezekiel 1:21 - of the living creature Ezekiel 10:17 - of the living creature Ezekiel 37:5 - I will Ezekiel 37:14 - shall put Ezekiel 47:9 - shall live Micah 7:19 - subdue Luke 15:24 - this John 3:5 - and of John 3:34 - for God John 11:25 - the life Acts 3:15 - Prince Romans 1:3 - his Son Romans 6:14 - sin Romans 7:4 - ye also Romans 7:23 - another Romans 8:9 - But ye Romans 8:13 - but if 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they Galatians 2:20 - nevertheless Galatians 5:25 - we Ephesians 2:1 - you Ephesians 2:5 - quickened Colossians 3:3 - your Titus 3:6 - through 1 Peter 4:6 - but
Cross-References
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven
I was there when he set the clouds above, when he established springs deep in the earth.
You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,' and they go, or ‘Come,' and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,' they do it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,.... These words are of difficult interpretation. They may be understood of the Gospel revealing and declaring deliverance from the law of Moses; wherefore there can be "no condemnation", Romans 8:1, by it. The Gospel may be designed by "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus"; which may be called a law, not as succeeding the law of works, by which that is abrogated; nor as requiring conditions to be performed, or as enjoining duties to be observed, or as delivering out threatenings in case of disobedience; but as it is a doctrine, order, and chain of truths, as the Hebrew word תורה signifies, and which is sometimes used for the Gospel, Isaiah 2:3 as νομος is, Romans 3:27. It may be called the law, or doctrine "of the Spirit", because the Spirit is the author of it, and makes it powerful and effectual to the good of souls; by it the Spirit of God is conveyed into the heart; and the substance of it are spiritual things: and the "law of the Spirit of life", because it discovers the way of life and salvation by Christ; is the means of quickening dead sinners; of working faith in them, by which they live on Christ, and of reviving drooping saints; and also it affords spiritual food, for the support of life: and this may be said to be "in Christ", or by him, inasmuch as it comes from, and is concerning him; he is the sum, the substance, and subject matter of it:
the law of sin and death may intend the law of Moses, called "the law of sin"; not as if it was sinful, or commanded or encouraged sin, for it severely prohibits it; but because by it, through the corruption of man's nature, sin is irritated, and made to abound; it is the strength of sin, and by it is the knowledge of it: and it may be called "the law of death", because it threatened with death, in case of disobedience; it sentences and adjudges transgressors to death; and when it is attended with power, it strikes dead all a man's hopes of life, by obedience to it; it leaves persons dead as it finds them, and gives no life, nor hopes of it; by it none can live, or be justified: now, though Christ is the author of deliverance from it, yet the Gospel is the means of revealing and declaring this deliverance; which designs not an exemption from obedience to it, but freedom from the curse and condemnation of it; and this sense well agrees with Romans 8:1; likewise the words are capable of being understood of the power and efficacy of the Spirit of God, in delivering regenerate persons from the dominion and tyranny of sin; and which may be considered as a reason why they "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit", Romans 8:1: "life" may well be ascribed to the Spirit of God, or be called the Spirit of life, because he has life in himself as the Father and Son have; and is the author of life to others, of natural life to all men as creatures, and of spiritual life to the people of God in regeneration; and is a quickening spirit to them afterwards, as he will be to the dead bodies of the saints in the resurrection: by "the law" of the Spirit may be meant, the energy and power of the Spirit in conversion; which work requires power, and a man has no power of himself to effect it; but there is a power in the Spirit, which works irresistibly, though not by any force or compulsion to the will, but it moves upon it sweetly, powerfully, and effectually: and all this may be said to be "in Christ": the life which the Spirit is the author and giver of, is in Christ as the head of his people, the proper repository of all grace, and the fountain of life; the Spirit himself is in him, both as God and as man, and as Mediator, hence the saints receive him and his gifts and graces from him; and the law of the Spirit, or his power and efficacy in working, is "in" or "by" Christ, through his sufferings and death, and in consequence of his mediation: now this powerful and quickening efficacy of the Spirit delivers regenerate persons from the force and tyranny of sin, called here "the law of sin and death"; a "law of sin", because it has power and dominion over unregenerate persons, its throne is in the heart of man, and its laws are many and powerful; and "the law of death", because its reign is tyrannical, barbarous and cruel, it is unto death: and from its governing influence, and tyrannical power, does the Spirit of God free his people in regeneration; not from the being of sin; nor from the rage of it, and disturbance it gives; nor from such power of it, but that they may fall into sin; but so as that sin does not properly reign over them, nor legally, nor universally, or so as to bring a death on their graces, and their persons into condemnation. Once more, those words may be understood of the holiness of Christ's human nature, as a branch of our justification, and freedom from the guilt of sin, and condemnation by it: for as "the law of sin and death" may design inherent corruption, and the force and power of it in the saints; so the opposite to it, "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ", may mean the purity and holiness of his human nature. That Christ's human nature is pure and holy is certain, from express texts of Scripture, from its union to the Son of God, from the ends and purposes of its assumption, from the inefficacy of Satan's temptations, and from the whole course of his life and conversation; for though he was in the likeness of sinful flesh, was reckoned a sinner by men, was attended with infirmities, the effects of sin, though not sinful, had all the sins of his people imputed to him, and endured afflictions, and at last death; yet his nature was pure and untainted: for he did not descend from Adam by ordinary generation; and though made of a woman, yet the flesh he took of her was sanctified by the Holy Ghost; his body was prepared by God, and curiously wrought by the Spirit, from whom his whole human nature received a fulness of habitual holiness: and this may be called "the Spirit of life" in him, because he is a quickening Spirit in regeneration, justification, and the resurrection from the dead; "the law" of it, because the holiness of his nature lies in, arises from, and is conformable to a law that is within him, written on his heart; and because, together with his obedience and death, it has a force, power, and authority, to free from condemnation; for this is not a mere necessary qualification of him to be the Mediator, or what renders his obedience, sacrifice, and intercession, efficacious and valuable, or is merely exemplary to us, but is what is imputed to us, as a part of our justification. The law requires a holy nature of us, we have not one, Christ assumed one for us, and so is the end of the law, or answers the requirement of the law in this respect, as well as in all others: and hence, though sanctification begun in us, does not free us from the being of sin, and all its force and power, yet perfect sanctification in Christ frees from all condemnation by it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the law - The word “law” here means that “rule, command, or influence” which “the Spirit of life” produces. That exerts a control which is here called a law, for a law often means anything by which we are ruled or governed; see the notes at Romans 7:21, Romans 7:23. Of the Spirit. I see no reason to doubt here that this refers to the Holy Spirit. Evidently, at the close of Romans 8:1, the word has this reference. The phrase “the Spirit of life” then means the Holy Spirit producing or giving life; that is, giving peace, joy, activity, salvation; in opposition to the law spoken of in Romans 7:0 that produced death and condemnation.
In Christ Jesus - Under the Christian religion; or sent by Christ to apply his work to people. John 16:7-14. The Spirit is sent by Christ; his influence is a part of the Christian scheme; and his power accomplishes what the Law could not do.
Hath made me free - That is, has delivered me from the predominating influence and control of sin. He cannot mean that he was perfect, for the whole tenor of his reasoning is opposed to that. But the design, the tendency, and the spirit of the gospel was to produce this freedom from what the Law could not deliver; and he was now brought under the general power of this scheme. In the former state he was under a most bitter and galling bondage; Romans 7:7-11. Now, he was brought under the influence of a scheme which contemplated freedom, and which produced it.
The law of sin and death - The controlling influence of sin, leading to death and condemnation; Romans 7:5-11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 8:2. For the law of the Spirit of life — The Gospel of the grace of Christ, which is not only a law or rule of life, but affords that sovereign energy by which guilt is removed from the conscience, the power of sin broken, and its polluting influence removed from the heart. The law was a spirit of death, by which those who were under it were bound down, because of their sin, to condemnation and death. The Gospel proclaims Jesus the Saviour; and what the law bound unto death, IT looses unto life eternal. And thus the apostle says, whether of himself or the man whom he is still personating, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Most people allow that St. Paul is here speaking of his own state; and this state is so totally different from that described in the preceding chapter, that it is absolutely impossible that they should have been the state of the same being, at one and the same time. No creature could possibly be carnal, sold under sin, brought into captivity to the law of sin and death; and at the same time be made free from that law of sin and death, by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus! Until the most palpable absurdities and contradictions can be reconciled, these two opposite states can never exist in the same person at the same time.
