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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 he has done most effectually.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For what the law could not do, — God has done by his grace: “ What the law could not do,” — Rom_8:3. In that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, — Or, as the marginal reading renders it, “by a sacrifice for sin,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; Unregenerate men, the men who remain in the state in which they were born, the men who allow their lower nature to have the predominance,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 flesh, but after the Spirit. If there are any men in the world who do keep the law of God, they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 flesh, but after the Spirit. The law of God was a good law, a just and holy law. It was weak, not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 flesh, but after the Spirit. The law never made anybody holy, and it never will do so. The law says...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 niter the flesh, but after the Spirit. This is our victory, that let the flesh lust as it may, we do not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,.... By the righteousness of the law, is not meant the righteousness of the ceremonial law, though that was fulfilled by Christ; but of the moral law, which requires holiness of nature, righteousness of life, and death in case of disobedience; active righteousness, or obedience to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Oh, what a blessed thing it is to walk, freely, “not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” even though, all the while, there is, within the soul, this strife that the apostle has been describing! This exposition consisted of readings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Mark, again, how Paul brings us to this as the great evidence of our being in Christ Jesus,-the not walking after the flesh. Now, every man, as he is born into the world, left to himself, is sure to “walk after the flesh.” It is only the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they that are after the flesh,.... By flesh is meant the corruption of nature; and they may be said to be "after" it, not all that have flesh in them, for the best of saints have it in them; regenerating grace does not remove it from them; there is a difference between being in and after the flesh, and flesh being in us; but such who are as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: That mind with which we are all born is enmity against God, and however much refined or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Those in whom there is a new life begotten by the Holy Ghost — these mind the things of the Spirit. Each nature seeks its own things, — the flesh seeks the things of the flesh, the spirit seeks the things of the Spirit. Judge ye, my hearers, to which case ye belong by this test, — for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; They care for nothing else: they are satisfied so long as their appetites are gratified. They are of this world, and the things of this world fill them to the brim. Rom_8:5. But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Spiritual joys, spiritual hopes, spiritual...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; They live to eat and drink. They live for self-aggrandizement. They live for the world and its pleasures alone. It is according to their nature. Everything acts according to its nature. The wolf devours; the sheep patiently feeds. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; Flesh cares for flesh. The man who is all body cares only for the body. The man, whose mind is under subjection to his body, minds “the things of the flesh.” Rom_8:5. But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Where the Holy Ghost is Supreme where the spiritual...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Oh! what a death it is to us if ever the flesh gets the mastery; and if it had the mastery in us, we should know that we were in death...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Everything according to its nature. Water will rise as high as its source, but it will not naturally flow any higher. The great thing, then, is to be brought under the dominion of the Holy Spirit, and of that new nature...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For to be carnally minded is death,.... The phrase the apostle here uses, includes the best part of corrupt man; the mind, the understanding, the judgment, the will, the affections, the thoughts, the reason, and reasonings of man; and may be rendered, "the wisdom", or "prudence of the flesh"; so called, to distinguish it from that wisdom which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The old nature never will obey the law of God; it never can do so. What then is to be done with it? Improve it? Nay, my brethren, the only thing to be...