10 [a]And if Christ be in you, the [b]body is dead, because of sin: but the Spirit is life for righteousness sake.

11 [c]But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that [d]dwelleth in you.

12 [e]Therefore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:10 He confirmeth the faithful against the relics of flesh and sin, granting that they are yet (as appeareth by the corruption which is in them) touching one of their parts (which he calleth the body, that is to say, a lump) which is not yet purged from the earthly filthiness in death: but therewithall willing them to doubt nothing of the happy success of their combat, because that even the little spark of the Spirit, (that is, of the grace of regeneration) which appeareth to be in them by the fruits of righteousness, is the seed of life.
  2. Romans 8:10 The flesh, or all that which as yet sticketh fast in the clefts of sin, and death.
  3. Romans 8:11 A confirmation of the former sentence. You have the selfsame Spirit, which Christ hath: Therefore at length it shall die the same in you, that it did in Christ, to wit, when all infirmities being utterly laid aside, and death overcome, it shall clothe you with heavenly glory.
  4. Romans 8:11 By the virtue and power of it, which showed the same might first in our head, and daily worketh in his members.
  5. Romans 8:12 An exhortation to oppress the flesh daily more and more by the virtue of the Spirit of regeneration, because (saith he) you are debtors unto God, forsomuch as you have received so many benefits of him.

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