New American Standard Bible 2020
Romans 8:2
2For 1the law of the Spirit of life 2in 3Christ Jesus 4has set you 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
1Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to 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 boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.
- Romans 8:10If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- John 4:10Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
- John 6:63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
- John 7:38The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
- 1 Corinthians 15:45So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” The last Adam was a life-giving spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- Revelation 11:11And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.
- Revelation 22:1And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Romans 6:18and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
- Psalms 51:12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And sustain me with a willing spirit.
- John 8:32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
- 2 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- Galatians 2:19For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live for God.
- Galatians 5:1It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
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
Topics related to Romans 8:2
In the dictionaries
Notes
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
New American Standard Bible 2020 — © 1960–2020 The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
Commentaries