Romans 8:2

The Spirit's law of life in Christ has freed believers from the law of sin and death. The Spirit accomplishes the liberation the struggling self could not.

Cross-references · 23

• Rom 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
• Rom 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
• 2 Cor 3:6And 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.
• Rom 8:10–11But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
• John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
• John 8:32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
• Rom 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
• John 7:38–39Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
• John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Gal 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Gal 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 7:21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
• Rev 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
• Rom 7:24–25What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
• Rom 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Rev 11:11But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.

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