10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)In these verses the apostle represents two more excellent benefits, which belong to true believers. I. Life. The happiness is not barely a negative happiness, not to be condemned; but it is positive, it is an advancement to a life that will be the unspeakable happiness of the man ( Rom. 8:10 , 11 ): If Christ be in you . Observe, If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by f…
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