Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

English Standard Version
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

New American Standard Bible
If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

King James Bible
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

International Standard Version
But if the Messiah is in you, your bodies are dead due to sin, but the spirit is alive due to righteousness.

American Standard Version
And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

Darby Bible Translation
but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,

Cross References

John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:10-17 If the Spirit be in us, Christ is in us. He dwells in the heart by faith. Grace in the soul is its new nature; the soul is alive to God, and has begun its holy happiness which shall endure for ever. The righteousness of Christ imputed, secures the soul, the better part, from death. From hence we see how much it is our duty to walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. If any habitually live according to corrupt lustings, they will certainly perish in their sins, whatever they profess. And what can a worldly life present, worthy for a moment to be put against this noble prize of our high calling? Let us then, by the Spirit, endeavour more and more to mortify the flesh. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit brings a new and Divine life to the soul, though in a feeble state. And the sons of God have the Spirit to work in them the disposition of children; they have not the spirit of bondage, which the Old Testament church was under, through the darkness of that dispensation. The Spirit of adoption was not then plentifully poured out. Also it refers to that spirit of bondage, under which many saints were at their conversion. Many speak peace to themselves, to whom God does not speak peace. But those who are sanctified, have God's Spirit witnessing with their spirits, in and by his speaking peace to the soul. Though we may now seem to be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot, be losers by him in the end.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10, 11. And if Christ be in you—by His indwelling Spirit in virtue of which we have one life with him.

the body—"the body indeed."

is dead because of—"by reason of"

sin; but the spirit is life because—or, "by reason"

of righteousness—The word "indeed," which the original requires, is of the nature of a concession—"I grant you that the body is dead … and so far redemption is incomplete, but," &c.; that is, "If Christ be in you by His indwelling Spirit, though your 'bodies' have to pass through the stage of 'death' in consequence of the first Adam's 'sin,' your spirit is instinct with new and undying 'life,' brought in by the 'righteousness' of the second Adam" [Tholuck, Meyer, and Alford in part, but only Hodge entirely].