For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Verse 13. For if ye live, etc. If you live to indulge your carnal propensities, you will sink to eternal death, . Through the Spirit. By the aid of the Spirit; by cherishing and cultivating his influences. What is here required can be accomplished only by the aid of the Holy Ghost. Do mortify. Do put to death; do destroy.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die,.... Such persons are dead, whilst they live, and shall die a second or an eternal death, if grace prevent not. It may be asked, whether one that has received the grace of God in truth, can live after the flesh; flesh, or corrupt nature, though still in such a person, has not the dominion over...
The body is dead, condemned to dust because sin is its enemy; yet the spirit is life itself, swallowed up in life. For the believer, death is but the freeing of the heaven-born spirit from the clog and load of flesh. Grace in the soul is its new nature.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 8:10-16