Romans 8:6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:1-39

Salvation To The Uttermost (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ’s activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the cross by means of the reckoning to us of His righteousness by faith), having been made known in Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25, Paul now sets about demonstrating the consequences of this for all true believers (Romans 5:1 to Romans 8:39). He wants us immediately to recognise that being ‘accounted as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:5-17

The Contrast Between Flesh And Spirit Is Considered, Leading Up To The Assurance Of Life Through The Triune God And A Declaration Of Our Sonship And Heirship (8:5-17). Reference to ‘walking not after the flesh but after the Spirit’ now leads on to a deeper examination of what it means to be responsive to the Spirit in contrast with the flesh. It is the battle of Galatians 5:16 ff. continued, with the Spirit and flesh being in constant opposition. This contrast is prominent verse by verse in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:6

‘For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,’ The consequence of having ‘the mind of the flesh’ is death. If we set our minds on fleshly things we will reap our reward. God is not mocked. He who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption (Galatians 6:7). In contrast the one who sows to the Spirit, and sets his mind on the Spirit and is ‘after the Spirit’, will enjoy life and peace. He will enjoy peace with God (Romans 5:1). He will ‘reap eternal... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 8:1-13

Romans 8:1-1 Chronicles : . The New Man in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 . “ Therefore now”— sin’ s captive escapes! “ No condemnation” : Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20, Romans 7:14-Jeremiah : was all condemnation! “ Those in Christ Jesus” ; see Romans 6:3-1 Kings :. Romans 8:2 . “ The law of the Spirit” ( cf. “ law of faith,” Romans 3:27 *) . . . “ emancipated me ( cf. Romans 6:18) from the law of sin and death” ( Romans 5:12-2 Chronicles : *, Romans 7:5; Romans 7:22; Romans 7:24). Romans 8:3 f. “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:6

In this verse we have an account of the different end of those that are carnal and spiritual, as in the former we had a description of their different carriage and disposition. For to be carnally minded is death; i.e. to be of that temper before described, Romans 8:5; to mind and affect the things of the flesh, doth cause death, or will end in it: the second or eternal death is chiefly intended. But to be spiritually minded; i.e. to mind and savour the things of the Spirit, to find a sweetness... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 8:5-13

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 8:5.—The state is indicated in Romans 7:25, when the mind can serve the law of God, and only the flesh is subject to the law of sin.Romans 8:6. Carnally minded (φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός).—Lust, a figurative expression, occasioned by what precedes.Romans 8:10. But the spirit is life.—Neither spiritual life nor happiness, but a physico-moral life in the fullest sense.Romans 8:11.—The Spirit the pledge of our fellowship with the risen One (Phil.).MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-11

Romans 8:1-11 In the verses before us three points are touched on regarding the gospel as God's power to sanctify. These are: (1) The preliminary work which had to be done by the coming of Christ, or the basis laid in the life and death of our Lord with a view to our being sanctified. Next, (2) wherein sanctification really consists; it is the substitution of God's Spirit as a source of moral influence in lieu of the congenital tendency or drift towards sin of our own nature. And (3) how this... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 8:6

DISCOURSE: 1860THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL MIND CONTRASTEDRomans 8:6. To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.THE world in general are much mistaken with respect to the means of solid happiness. They seek the vanities of time and sense in hopes of finding satisfaction; and they shun religion under the idea that it would make them melancholy: but the “way of transgressors is hard [Note: Proverbs 13:15.].” On the contrary, the ways of religion afford both peace... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-39

Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was a Pharisee he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions. But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual, then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death because, though he had physically kept the law, spiritually he had violated it.So he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:1-39

The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot extricate himself by any unavailing efforts of legal obedience that God has done for us by Jesus Christ what we could not do for ourselves that this liberation is obtained by union with Christ, which exempts us from condemnation and that those who are thus united to him, walk not after the flesh,... read more

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