Romans 8:2 “For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from th…”

Romans 8:2

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

World English Bible

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

American Standard Version

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

Darby Translation

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

Young's Literal Translation

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

Bible in Basic English

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

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Cross references

“For”

John 8:36 Romans 3:27

John 8:36 · BSB

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 3:27 · BSB

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

“Spirit”

2 Corinthians 3:6 1 Corinthians 15:45 John 6:63 John 4:10 John 4:14 Revelation 22:1

2 Corinthians 3:6 · BSB

And 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.

1 Corinthians 15:45 · BSB

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

John 6:63 · BSB

The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

John 4:10 · BSB

Jesus 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 4:14 · BSB

But 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.”

Revelation 22:1 · BSB

Then 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

“hath”

2 Corinthians 3:17 Romans 6:18 John 8:32 Romans 6:22 Galatians 5:1 Galatians 2:19

2 Corinthians 3:17 · BSB

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Romans 6:18 · BSB

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

John 8:32 · BSB

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Romans 6:22 · BSB

But 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.

Galatians 5:1 · BSB

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 2:19 · BSB

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

“from”

Romans 5:21 Romans 7:21 Romans 7:24 Romans 7:25

Romans 5:21 · BSB

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7:21 · BSB

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:24 · BSB

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 7:25 · BSB

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Also

Romans 6:14 Romans 7:4

Romans 6:14 · BSB

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:4 · BSB

Therefore, 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

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