You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, 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.
Observe, He doth not say, the flesh in not in you, but ye are not in the flesh, so as to be acted and influenced, guided and governed, misled and carried away by it. Sincere and serious Christians, although they live in the flesh, yet do they not live after the flesh: But ye are in the Spirit, that is, illuminated, inclined, and enabled by...
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if 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. (11) He addresses the others, that is, those who walk after the Spirit, of whom we have to understand contrary things to the former: and first of all...
This is the triumph after that melancholy conflict in the foregoing chapter: sin remaining, but blessed be God, not ruining. I do not say there is no accusation against us, but the indictment is quashed; not that nothing in us deserves condemnation, but that it shall not be our ruin. We are in Christ Jesus as in our city of refuge, and through His satisfaction to the law, God is well pleased with us.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 8:1-9