Those controlled by their sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by your sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 39 – Commentary Romans 8:5-7 – Christian vs. non-Christian behavior
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 38 – Commentary Romans 8:3-4 – Are Christians supposed to follow the Ten Commandments – Part 1
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by our sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the sinful man in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 37 – Commentary Romans 7:25 – 8:2 – How does Jesus set us free from sin?
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. But, therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 36 – Commentary Romans 7:12-25a – Does sin live in a believer?
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 35 – Commentary Romans 7:7-11 – Is coveting a sin?
“What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Far from it! Indeed I would not have known what it was to covet if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 33 – Commentary Romans 6:21-23 – Should Christians live with regret?
Those things (sin) result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 31 – Commentary Romans 6:8-14) – October 25, 2018
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he […]