4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, …
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, …
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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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