12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)The apostle’s transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: “ What shall we say then ? Rom. 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom. 3:8. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound ? Shall we hence take encouragement to sin with so much the more boldness, because the more sin we com…
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