Romans 8;15-17 15.  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the spirit of sonship.  When we cry, “Abba, Father!” 16.  it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,17.  and if children, then heirs, heirs of God...

Roman’s 8;14 14.  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. What does it me to be, “led by the Spirit of God” ? It means that we are no longer in command.  Like a good soldier, we follow our good ‘Leader’ who is, praise God, NEVER wrong. To be...

Roman’s 8;12&13 12.  So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—13.  For if you live, according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. Paul reveals that the divine spiritual war between...

Romans 8;10&11 10.  But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.11.  If the Spirit of him who raise Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your...

Romans 8;9 9.  But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God really dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. When Paul says, “you are not in the flesh, you are in the...

Romans 8;7&8 Corrections:  I wrongly dated yesterday’s VotD as 9/31 instead of 8/31.                       I misquoted Philippians 5;18, it should read “give thanks in all circumstances”                       not ‘things’.                ...

Romans 8;5&6 5.  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.6.  To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind...

Romans 8;4 8;3b.  He (the Triune God) condemned sin in the flesh, (of Jesus)4.  in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flash, but according to the Spirit. It is of utmost importance for us to carefully read this verse. The reason...

Romans 8;3 3.  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, he condemned sin in the flash. Our Heavenly Father had many reasons to send His only Son: John 3;16 teaches us, “ For...

Romans 8;2 2.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. ‘Two different Laws from God’ Here, Paul in praise to God, sets forth the truth that there is another, different, greater, more powerful law from God!   It is not the “law of sin...

Romans 8;1 1.  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Imagine an armed police force searching for a terrible murderer, a child rapist, a violent repeat criminal, a mentally deranged maniac.  If they could catch him alive, he would be chained immediately, thrown in prison only to in...

Romans 7;25 25.  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Paul thanks God for his conflicted condition.  His condition forces him to despair of the flesh altogether, and cry...

Romans 7;19-23, and 24 19.  For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.20.  Now, if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.21.  So I find it...

Romans 7;17&18 17.  So then it is no longer I (the born anew man) that do it, but sin which dwells within me.18.  For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I (the born anew man) can will what is right, but I cannot do it. Here, Paul sets...

Romans 7;13-17 13.  Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might be become sinful beyond measure.14.  We know that the...

Romans 7;7-12 7.  What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet it if the law has not said, “You shall not...

Romans 7;5&6 5.  While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.6.  But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written...

Roman’s 7/4 4.  Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. Paul uses the analogy of the law as it applies...

Romans 7;1-3 1.  Do you not know brethren—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during his life?2.  Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is...

Romans 6;20-20 20.  When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.21.  But then, what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.22.  But now that you have been set free from sin and have...

Romans 6;17-19 17.  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18.  and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19.  I am speaking in human terms, because of...

Romans 6;15&16 15.  What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?  By no means!16.  Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death,...

(Dear friends in Christ, Tomorrow and this weekend will be very demanding for me.  Therefore, I am sending in advance the next few commentary/devotions.  GPP) Romans 6;12-14 12.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.13.  Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness,...

Romans 6;8-11 8.  But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.9.  For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.10.  The death he died he died to sin, once for all,...

Romans 6;6&7 6.  We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.7.  For he who has died is freed from sin. Paul is here teaching us more about ‘spiritual time travel’. He teaches that our “old self”...

Roman’s 6;3-5 3.  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?4.  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might...

Romans 6;1&2 1.  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?2.  By no means!  How can we who died to sin still live in it? If we walk in darkness, we do not see what we are stepping into, or about to run into.  If the light...

Romans 5;19-21 19.  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.20.  Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,21.  so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through...

Romans 5;18 18.  Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. We should realize that the sin of Adam was not simply taking a bite of forbidden fruit, no.  His sin which brings death to all...

Romans 5;15&16 15.  But the free gift is not like the trespass.  For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.16.  And the free gift is not like the...

Romans 5;12-14 12.  Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned—13.  Sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.14.  Yet death...