2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)I. The apostle here beings with one signal privilege of true Christians, and describes the character of those to whom it belongs: There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus , Rom. 8:1. This is his triumph after that melancholy complaint and conflict in the foregoing chapter—sin remaining, disturbing, vexing, but, blessed be God, not ruining. The complaint he takes to…
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