Romans 8
Lutheran reading notes
In Romans chapter 8, the message of the gospel develops the theme of the gospel of justification and righteousness by faith. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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{There is} therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For 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: {for sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin}
Romans 8:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For to be carnally minded {is} death; but to be spiritually minded {is} life and peace. {to be carnally...: Gr. the minding of the flesh} {to be spiritually...: Gr. the minding of the Spirit}
Romans 8:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because the carnal mind {is} enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. {the carnal...: Gr. the minding of the flesh}
Romans 8:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 8:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the Spirit {is} life because of righteousness.
Romans 8:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. {by: or, because of}
Romans 8:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 8:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 8:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Romans 8:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Romans 8:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with {him}, that we may be also glorified together.
Romans 8:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time {are} not worthy {to be compared} with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Romans 8:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected {the same} in hope,
Romans 8:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 8:21 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {the...: or, every creature}
Romans 8:22 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And not only {they}, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, {to wit}, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:23 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Romans 8:24 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if we hope for that we see not, {then} do we with patience wait for {it}.
Romans 8:25 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:26 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what {is} the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to {the will of} God. {because: or, that}
Romans 8:27 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to {his} purpose.
Romans 8:28 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate {to be} conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:29 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:30 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What shall we then say to these things? If God {be} for us, who {can be} against us?
Romans 8:31 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Romans 8:32 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? {It is} God that justifieth.
Romans 8:33 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who {is} he that condemneth? {It is} Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Romans 8:34 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? {shall} tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:35 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:36 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:37 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:38 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.