Romans 8:2 Parallel Translations

The standards of the Spirit, who gives life through Christ Jesus, have set you free from the standards of sin and death.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

ASV:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

BBE:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

DBY:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

ERV:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

WEY:

for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

WBS:

For the law of the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

WEB:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

YLT:

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

Romans 8:2 Cross References

XREF:

John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

John 8:36 "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 16:3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

8:2 {3} For the {b} law of the Spirit of {c} life in {d} Christ Jesus hath {e} made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) A preventing of an objection: seeing that the power of the Spirit is in us is so weakly, how may we gather by this that there is no condemnation for those that have that power? Because, he says, that power of the life-giving Spirit which is so weak in us, is most perfect and most mighty in Christ, and being imputed to us who believe, causes us to be thought of as though there were no relics of corruption and death in us. Therefore until now Paul reasons of remission of sins, and imputation of fulfilling the Law, and also of sanctification which is begun in us: but now he speaks of the perfect imputation of Christ's manhood, which part was necessarily required for the full appeasing of our consciences: for our sins are destroyed by the blood of Christ, and the guiltiness of our corruption is covered with the imputation of Christ's obedience, and the corruption itself (which the apostle calls sinful sin) is healed in us little by little, by the gift of sanctification: but yet it is not complete, in that it still lacks another remedy, that is, the perfect sanctification of Christ's own flesh, which is also imputed to us.
(b) The power and authority of the Spirit, against which is set the tyranny of sin.
(c) Which kills the old man, and brings the new man to life.
(d) That is, absolutely and perfectly.
(e) For Christ's sanctification being imputed to us perfects our sanctification which is begun in us.

PNT:

8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life. The Spirit of life must be the Holy Spirit. The whole phrase is equivalent to the Gospel, which has been given to men by the agency of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit has quickened us into a new life, and as we have died to the law and to sin, we are freed from them. Wesley says that the meaning is the Gospel has freed us from the Mosaic law. That the law of the Spirit of life describes the Gospel is shown by Ro 8:3, which explains this verse.

WES:

8:2 The law of the Spirit - That is, the gospel. Hath freed me from the law of sin and death - That is, the Mosaic dispensation.

MHC:

8:1-9 Believers may be chastened of the Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the flesh or the Spirit, the old or the new nature, corruption or grace? For which of these do we make provision, by which are we governed? The unrenewed will is unable to keep any commandment fully. And the law, besides outward duties, requires inward obedience. God showed abhorrence of sin by the sufferings of his Son in the flesh, that the believer's person might be pardoned and justified. Thus satisfaction was made to Divine justice, and the way of salvation opened for the sinner. By the Spirit the law of love is written upon the heart, and though the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled by us, yet, blessed be God, it is fulfilled in us; there is that in all true believers, which answers the intention of the law. The favour of God, the welfare of the soul, the concerns of eternity, are the things of the Spirit, which those that are after the Spirit do mind. Which way do our thoughts move with most pleasure? Which way go our plans and contrivances? Are we most wise for the world, or for our souls? Those that live in pleasure are dead, 1Ti 5:6. A sanctified soul is a living soul; and that life is peace. The carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself. The carnal man may, by the power of Divine grace, be made subject to the law of God, but the carnal mind never can; that must be broken and driven out. We may know our real state and character by inquiring whether we have the Spirit of God and Christ, or not, ver. 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Having the Spirit of Christ, means having a turn of mind in some degree like the mind that was in Christ Jesus, and is to be shown by a life and conversation suitable to his precepts and example.

CONC:

Christ Deals Death Free Law Sin Spirit Spirit's Telling

Christ Deals Death Free Jesus Law Sin Spirit Spirit's Telling

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