Romans 8:12-14 | |
12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. | 12. Itaque fratres, debitores sumus, non carni, ut secundum carnem vivamus. |
13. For if ye live after the flesh,ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. | 13. Si enim secundum carnem vixeritis, moriemini: si vero Spiritu facta carnis 1 mortificaveritis, vivetis. |
14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. | 14. Quicunque enim Spiritu Dei aguntur, ii filii Dei sunt. |
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"not to grieve the Spirit of God, by whom we have been sealed to the day of redemption:"
he does the same in Galatians 5:25,
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."
And this is the case, when we renounce carnal lusts, so as to devote ourselves, as those who are bound, to the righteousness of God. Thus indeed we ought to reason, not as some blasphemers are wont to do, who talk idly, and say, -- that we must do nothing, because we have no power. But it is as it were to fight against God, when we extinguish the grace offered to us, by contempt and negligence.
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But it is right to observe, that the working of the Spirit is various: for there is that which is universal, by which all creatures are sustained and preserved; there is that also which is peculiar to men, and varying in its character: but what he means here is sanctification, with which the Lord favors none but his own elect, and by which he separates them for sons to himself.
1 "Deeds of the body" is our version, and the preponderance of authority, according to Griesbach, is in its favor, though he admits that the other reading,
2 He did not mention the other part, says Pareus, "because it was so evident." Besides, what he had already stated, and what he proceeds to state, are so many evidences of our obligations to live after the Spirit, that it was unnecessary to make such an addition. -- Ed.
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