Romans 8:2 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 8:2

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

KJV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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Commentary

5 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and of death." What difference there is among those who, placed as it were in a kind of contest, live with the mind according to the law of God but are driven by the desires of the flesh into the law of sin, he taught in the preceding passages.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Tertullian

On Modesty (220)

For even if he has affirmed that "good dwelleth not in his flesh," yet (he means) according to "the law of the letter," in which he "was: "but according to "the law of the Spirit," to which he annexes us, he frees us from the "infirmity of the flesh.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,.... These words are of difficult interpretation. They may be understood of the Gospel revealing and declaring deliverance from the law of Moses; wherefore there can be "no condemnation", Rom 8:1, by it.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The covenant of grace made with us in Christ is a treasury of merit and grace, and thence we receive pardon and a new nature, are freed from the law of sin and death, that is, both from the guilt and power of sin--from the course of the law, and the dominion of the flesh.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

We think it wrong, therefore, to render the words (as in the Margin) "by a sacrifice for sin" (suggested by the language of the Septuagint and approved by CALVIN, &c.); for this sense is too definite, and makes the idea of expiation more prominent than it is. condemned sin--"condemned it to lose its power over men" [BEZA, BENGEL, FRASER, MEYER, THOLUCK, PHILIPPI, ALFORD].

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	For	G1063 →
νόμος	nomos	the law	G3551 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πνεύματος	pneumatos	Spirit	G4151 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ζωῆς	zōēs	of life	G2222 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Χριστῷ	Christō	Christ	G5547 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
ἠλευθέρωσέν	ēleutherōsen	has set free	G1659 →
σε	se	you	G4771 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
νόμου	nomou	law	G3551 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	of sin	G266 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θανάτου.	thanatou	of death.	G2288 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
leads to
- John 8:32
  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 5:1
  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 6:63
  The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 5:13
  For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Galatians 4:6
  And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Through
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
leads to
- Galatians 5:18
  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Through
2 Corinthians 3:6
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
leads to
- Romans 7:6
  But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the…
- Jeremiah 31:31
  Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Romans

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Romans