Romans 8:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:2-15
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? …
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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? …
1 Peter 4:2-3
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. …
Psalms 116:16
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

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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 faith…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12-13. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh--“Once we were sold under sin (Ro 7:14); but now that we have been set free from that hard master and become servants to Righteousness (Ro 6:22), we owe nothing to the flesh, we disown its unrighteous claims and are deaf to its imperious demands.” Glorious sentiment!