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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Romans 8 As the former chapter shows that sanctified ones are not free from the being of sin in them, which is a ground of general complaint and uneasiness; this chapter shows, that justified ones are freed from the guilt of sin, and secure from punishment for it; and have the utmost reason to rejoice and be glad, and even to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There is therefore now, no condemnation,.... The apostle having discoursed largely in the preceding chapter, concerning the struggle and combat believers feel within themselves, and opened the true causes and reasons of the saints' grievances and complaints, and what gives them the greatest uneasiness in this life, proceeds in this to take notice...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The apostle, having fully explained the doctrine of justification, and pressed the necessity of sanctification, in this chapter applies himself to the consolation of the Lord's people. Ministers are helpers of the joy of the saints. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," so runs our commission, Isa. xl. 1. It is the will of God that his people should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Some people talk about “getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th.” But who made this into an eighth chapter? Certainly, the Holy Spirit did not. There are no chapters in the Epistle as he inspired Paul to write it, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. My hearers, we are each of us, by nature, under the condemnation of God. We are not only subject to condemnation, but we are condemned already; and, on account of sin, there is judgment recorded in God’s book against every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 first note of the chapter. In the last verse it is “no separation.” What glorious music there is here, — no condemnation to those who are in Christ, no separation of them from Christ! Happy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, There is no condemnation to them; that is gone, and gone for ever. Not only is part of it removed, but the whole of it is gone: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” This is their legal status before God,—in Christ Jesus, without...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 little word now. “There is, therefore, now no condemnation” — at this very moment. Walking under the power of the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus, there is,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. “There is therefore now” — at this very day, at this very moment, — “no condemnation” — none of any sort, — none that will lie in the Court of Conscience or in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 separation: that is the end of the chapter. And all between is full of grace and truth. What a banquet this chapter has often proved to the souls of God’s hungry...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. “Hath made me free” — that is, the real “I” of which he wrote a little while before — the true man himself: “’ The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.’ I have broken its bonds, I am a free man....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: He did accomplish it. The law could not condemn sin so truly and so thoroughly as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. I have broken away from its thralldom; the new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of grace has set me free from the domination of the law of sin and death. Happy is the free man who is thus liberated by the grace of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. “It cannot any longer rule me; and it cannot now condemn me. I am free from it, for I am now under the new and higher ‘law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Sin and death cannot govern me — cannot condemn me — cannot destroy me. Another law has come in. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has brought me into another kingdom wherein I cannot be affected, so as to condemn me, by the law of sin and death.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. And nothing else can do that. Every man is, by nature, under bondage to that which Paul describes as “the law of sin and death.” There is a law in our nature, which is so powerful that, even when we would do good, evil is present with us, and we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. I am not the bond-slave of it; I am the enemy of it; I am free from it, fighting against it, struggling like a free man against one who would bring him into captivity; but even though I sometime feel as if I were a captive, I know I am not, I am free.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For what the law could not do,.... This is not to be understood of "the law of the mind", in opposition to "the law of sin", which indeed is very feeble and impotent; man had a power originally of obeying the divine commands, but through sin he has lost his strength and power; and even a renewed mind cannot perform what it would, which is owing to...