for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not, ver. 18.. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me, 20. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members, 23. Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy! But he giveth more grace: wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble, Jam. iv. 5, 6.. VER. 18. A. D. 60. under grace, vi. 14. There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not 'do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be car Οἶδα γὰρ, ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοὶ (τοῦτ ̓ šoтw by tỷ cagxí μov) áyalóv⋅ ró yàp dé-nally minded is death; but to be spiλειν παράκειταί μοι, τὸ δὲ κατεργάζεσθαι τὸ καλὸν, οὐχ εὑρίσκω. For I know that in me (that is, bin my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. a See on Matt. vii. ver. 11. clause 1. VER. 19. ritually minded is life and peace: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, viii. 1-8. Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin, John viii. 54. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of cor Οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω, ποιῶ ἀγαθόν· ἀλλ ̓ ὃ οὐ ruption: for of whom a man is overθέλω κακὸν, τοῦτο πράσσω. come, of the same is he brought in bondage, 2 Pet. ii. 19. VER. 22. Συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον· For I delight in the law of God after a the inward man : a For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God, Rom. ii. 28, 29. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day, 2 Cor. iv. 16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, Eph. iii. 16. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price, 1 Pet. iii. 4. A. D. 60. ROM. VII. 23-25.—vili. 1—3. VER. 25. Βλέπω δὲ ἕτερον νόμον ἐν τοῖς μέλεσι μου, ἀντιστρατευόμενον τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοός μου, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντά με τῷ νόμῳ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τῷ ὄντι ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου. a But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would, Gal. v. 16, 17., But thou, Ο man of God, fee these things ; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses, 1 Tim. vi. 11, 12. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? James iv. 1. 613 A. D. 60. a See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the fesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the are led by the Spirit of God, they are body, ye shall live. For as many as the sons of God, ver. 12-14. say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye This I shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other, Gal. v. 16, 17. VER. 2. Ο γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἠλευθέρωσέ με ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου. Christ Jesus bhath made me free from For the law of the Spirit of life in the law of sin and death. a He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glori killeth, but the spirit giveth life, 2 Cor. fied,) John vii. 38, 39. The letter iii. 17. b See on John viii. ver. 32. clause 2. VER. 3. Τὸ γὰρ ἀδύνατον τοῦ νόμου, ἐν ᾧ ἐσθένει ψας ἐν ὁμοιώματι σαρκὸς ἁμαρτίας, καὶ διὰ τῆς σαρκὸς, ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν πέμ περὶ ἁμαρτίας, κατέκρινε τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐν τῇ σαρκί· a For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: * Or, by a sacrifice, for sin. a But now we are delivered from the held; that we should serve in newlaw, that being dead wherein we were ness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. vii. 6. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been ἵνα τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου πληρωθῇ ἐν ἡμῖν, τοῖς μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, b who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. * But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, Gal. v. 22-24. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish, Eph. v. 25-27. And you, that were sometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled, In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight, Col. i. 21, 22. b See on ver. 1. clause 2. Οἱ γὰρ κατὰ σάρκα ὄντες, τὰ τῆς σαρ κὸς φρονοῦσιν· οἱ δὲ κατὰ πνεῦμα, τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος. * For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. * See on John iii. ver. 6. clause 1. See on John iii. ver. 6. clause 2. VER. 6. Τὸ γὰρ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς θάνατος" τὸ δὲ φρόνημα τοῦ πνεύματος, ζωὴ καὶ εἰρήνη. * For to *he carnally minded is death; A. D. 60. but to be spiritually minded is life band peace. *Gr. the minding of the flesh: so ver. 7. + Gr. the minding of the spirit. a See on chap. vi. ver. £1. clause 3. b See on chap. i. ver. 7. clause 5. VER. 7. Διότι τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς, ἔχθρα εἰς Θεόν· τῷ γὰρ νόμῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσ σεται· οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται. b Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. * Gr. minding of the flesh. a See on chap. i. ver. 30. clause 2. Οἱ δὲ ἐν σαρκὶ ὄντες, Θεῷ ἀρέσει οὐ δύ Ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἐν σαρκὶ, ἀλλ ̓ ἐν πνεύματι, εἴπερ Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν. Εἰ δέ τις Πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ εὐκ ἔχει, οὗτος οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ. a But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, bif so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. a See on John iii. ver. 6. clause 2. b Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. iii. 16. 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? vi. 19. and 2 Cor. vi. 16. In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit, Eph. ii. 22. That thee, keep by the Holy Ghost which good thing which was committed unto dwelleth in us, 2 Tim. i. 14. See also on John vii. ver. 39. clause 1. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, John iii. 6. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, viii. 8. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed; and that no man can say that A. D. 60. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds, Col. iii. 59. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, 1 Pet. ii. 11. VER. 14. Οσοι γὰρ Πνεύματι Θεοῦ ἄγονται, οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοὶ Θεοῦ. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. a Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness, Psal. cxliii. 10. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go, Isa. xlvi. 17. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law, ̓́Αρα οὖν, ἀδελφοὶ, ὀφειλέται ἐσμὲν οὐ Gal. v. 18. If we live in the Spirit, τῇ σαρκὶ, τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆν. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. VER. 13. Εἰ γὰρ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆτε, μέλλετε ἀποθνήσκειν· εἰ δὲ πνεύματι τὰς πράξεις τοῦ σώματος θανατοῦτε, ζήσεσθε. a For if ye live after the flesh,ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. a See on John iii. ver. 6. clause 1. b See on chap. vi. ver. 21. clause 3. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections, and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit, Gal. v. 24, 25. That ye put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, Eph. iv. 22, 23, let us also walk in the Spirit, 25. b See on Matt. v. ver. 9. clause 3. VER. 15. Οὐ γὰς ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα δουλείαις πάλιν εἰς φόβον, ἀλλ ̓ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας, ἐν ᾧ κράζομεν, ̓Αββᾶ, ὁ πατήρ. For ye have not received a the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. a Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear. and he went up into the ship, and returned back again, Luke viii. 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Acts ii. 37. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas; And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? xvi. 29, 30. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind, 2 Tim. i. 7. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage, Heb. ii. 15. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love, 1 John iv. 18. b See on Luke xv. ver. 22. clause 2. VER. 18. A. D. 60. οὐχ ἐκοῦσα, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὑποτάξαντα Τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη, a Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit ini our hearts, 2 Cor. i. 21, 22. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit, v. 5. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption, Eph. iv. 30. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God, 1 John iii. 19-21. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God, bath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son, v. 10. See on Matt. v. ver. 9. clause 3. a For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, a And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return, Gen. iii. 17-19. And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed, v. 29. fesh is come before me ; for the earth And God said unto Noah, The end of all is with filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth, vi. 13. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore |