4Wherefore, 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.
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Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, …
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (Rom. 6:14), that we are not under the law ; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (Rom. 7:6): We are delivered from the law . What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are del…
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