12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? …
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? …
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. …
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Commentary
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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