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 will not have dominion over you. For 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 liberty.
• Rom 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rom 8:10–11If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
• John 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
• John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• John 7:38–39He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Gal 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 7:21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
• Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• Rom 7:24–25What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
• Rom 3:27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
• Rev 11:11After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

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