--- title: "Romans 8 - Study King James Bible with the church pulpit commentary" description: "Read Romans 8 with the church pulpit commentary commentary. 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spiri" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/romans/8" --- [ Read](/kjv/romans/8)[ Commentary](/study/romans/8)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/romans/8) Audio 1 *There is* therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 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: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 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. 6 For to be carnally minded *is* death; but to be spiritually minded *is* life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind *is* enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 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. 10 And if Christ *be* in you, the body *is* dead because of sin; but the Spirit *is* life because of righteousness. 11 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. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 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. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 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. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 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. 18 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. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected *the same* in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 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. 24 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? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, *then* do we with patience wait for *it*. 26 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. 27 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. 28 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. 29 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. 30 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. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God *be* for us, who *can be* against us? 32 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? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? *It is* God that justifieth. 34 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. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? *shall* tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 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 7](/study/romans/7) [Romans 9](/study/romans/9) ## Commentary To verse 1 *NO CONDEMNATION* ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.’ [Romans 8:1](/kjv/romans/8/1) No condemnation! What a strange, sweeping statement! And we naturally ask, to whom can it apply? To all Christians, or only to some? The answer is, it applies to all—yes, *all*. If any one will read this chapter through as a whole, he will see that it is entirely devoted to one great subject, and that we may describe that subject in one word as being ‘the footing on which Christian people stand towards God.’ These words are the standing-point—the foundation—of his whole discussion: ‘No condemnation for those who are in Christ.’ And then when he has gone through his exposition, then, towards the end of the chapter, he comes back to his starting-point, and amplifies it, and works it out, and repeats it over and over again. ‘Who *is* there to lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?’ He asks, ‘Who *is* there to condemn?’ And then he breaks out into a kind of Psalm upon this glorious theme: ‘I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, 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.’ **I. This doctrine is the basis and standing-ground of our whole position towards God as Christians**.—We cannot be too clear upon this. St. Paul is careful to draw his lines very sharply. It is this or nothing. ‘Ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.’ And again, ‘If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.’ St. Paul does not mean by this that either we or the people he was writing to were perfect, or that they were of exceptional holiness, or that they had unusual knowledge of Divine things. On the contrary, he goes on to speak of their *infirmities*. **II. No indifference to sin**.—Do these words mean that God is indifferent to sin in Christian people? By no means. Especially when you remember that the very end and object of Christianity is to destroy sin. But how is sin to be destroyed? There is one way, and one way only. And that is by our actually *living with* God, Who is the fountain of holiness and the source of the strength and power to do right and to avoid evil. By our *living with* Him—for this is what is meant by the Scripture phrases about ‘Communion with God’—by our living in fellowship with Him, by doing all that we have to do, and going through all our daily duties as in His presence, and in reliance on His aid, and so, by this continual *communion* of our hearts with God, deriving continually increasing communications of Divine power into our hearts and of Divine influence into our characters. This has been the description of all God’s saints. **III. Nothing should keep us back from God**.—God says to us, Let the past *be* past. Only come to Me. Come and take your place before Me as My child. Your sin shall be no barrier. It is your sin that I want to cure. Only come. *If* you come, *if* you will dwell constantly in the sense of My presence, ever keeping up the true Christian converse with Me, your Father and your Friend—then every day that you live sin will be growing less and less powerful within you, the cure of evil will be every day progressing in completeness, My spirit shall be more powerful within you day by day. You will be daily growing more meet for My unveiled presence in heaven; and your sins shall never be remembered against you. It is thus, in effect, that God speaks to the Christian soul. Thus is it that there is ‘no condemnation for them that are in Christ’—nothing in our sins that ought to keep us *back* from God—everything that ought to drive us *to* God, not that we may be condemned, but that we may be healed. And the basis of the whole is this—that God does forgive and has forgiven us, forgiven us that we may have courage to come boldly to Him for the cure of those very sins which make us afraid to approach Him at all. 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