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If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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The Christian's Paradox
Multiple commentators, especially Charles Spurgeon, explain that this verse addresses the Christian's paradoxical experience. While your spirit is made alive in Christ, your physical body is still subject to the consequences of sin, which include sickness, pain, decay, and eventual death. This state persists until the future resurrection, when the body will also be fully redeemed.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And if Christ be in you. This is evidently a figurative expression, where the word "Christ" is used to denote His Spirit, His principles; …
The body is dead (το μεν σωμα νεκρον). Has the seeds of death in it and will die "because of sin."
The spirit is li…
19th Century
Anglican
The results of the presence of Christ in the soul.
The body is dead because of sin.—Here the word is evidently used of physical deat…
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Baptist
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but …
Turning now to his readers, Paul reminds them of the basic difference between themselves and those he has been describing. As believers, they have,…
16th Century
Protestant
But if Christ be in us, etc. What he had previously said of the Spirit he now says of Christ, so that the manner of Christ’s dwelling in u…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if Christ be in you Not as he is in the whole world, and in all his creatures, or circumscriptively, and to the …
If the Spirit is in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by faith. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has be…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding section, the Apostle had presupposed that the prudence of the flesh is death, and here he intends to prove this.
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