14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. …
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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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