American Standard Version
Romans 8:2
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Romans 8:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- New International Version (NIV)because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Context of Romans 8:2
1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Read all of Romans 8Romans 8:2 word by word
ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσέν σε ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Romans 8:2
- Romans 3:27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
- John 8:36If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
- Romans 8:10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
- John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
- John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- Revelation 11:11And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.
- Revelation 22:1And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
- Psalms 51:12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit.
- John 8:32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- Galatians 2:19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
- Galatians 5:1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
Commentaries on Romans 8:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2For the law of the Spirit of life - The Gospel of the grace of Christ, which is not only a law or rule of life, but affords that sovereign energy by which guilt is removed from the conscience, the power of sin broken, and its polluting influence removed from the heart. The law was a spirit of death, by which those who were under it were bound down, because of their sin, to condemnation and death. The Gospel proclaims Jesus the Savior; and what the law…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For the law - The word “law” here means that “rule, command, or influence” which “the Spirit of life” produces. That exerts a control which is here called a law, for a law often means anything by which we are ruled or governed; see the notes at Romans 7:21, Romans 7:23. Of the Spirit. I see no reason to doubt here that this refers to the Holy Spirit. Evidently, at the close of Romans 8:1, the word has this reference. The phrase “the Spirit of life” then…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2the law of the Spirit of life: This reference to law might refer to the law of Moses, which the Holy Spirit can use to give life. However, Paul does not describe the law as giving life. So, here, law, as in 7:23, probably means principle or power. The Spirit has power that frees Christians from the power of sin that leads to death.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free--rather, "freed me"--referring to the time of his conversion, when first he believed. from the law of sin and death--It is the Holy Ghost who is here called "the Spirit of life," as opening up in the souls of believers a fountain of spiritual life (see on Joh 7:38, 39); just as He is called "the Spirit of truth," as "guiding them into all truth" (Joh 16:13), and "the Spirit of counsel…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Romans 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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