Life in the Spirit
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There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, a who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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For b the law of c the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from d the law of sin and death.
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For e what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, f God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
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that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who g do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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For h those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, i the things of the Spirit.
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For j to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
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Because k the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, l nor indeed can be.
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So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
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And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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But if the Spirit of m Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, n He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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Cross References
Galatians 5:16
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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Cross References
Romans 6:18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6:22
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Cross References
Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:25
I thank God - through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Cross References
Acts 13:39
And by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Hebrews 7:18
For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree").
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Cross References
Romans 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through bapti...
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Galatians 5:16
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall n...
Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in t...
Ephesians 4:1
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech...
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us a...
Ephesians 5:15
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fo...
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the lig...
1 John 2:6
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also...
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Cross References
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Cross References
Galatians 5:22 - 25
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
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Cross References
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
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Cross References
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Cross References
Acts 2:24
Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
Romans 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:14
And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
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