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Romans 8:2–4

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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.
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:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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From verse 2

  1. Romans 6:14Rank 1 from verse 2
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    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

  2. 2 Corinthians 3:17Rank 2 from verse 2
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    17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

  3. Romans 6:18Rank 3 from verse 2
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    18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

  4. 2 Corinthians 3:6Rank 4 from verse 2
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    6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

  5. Romans 8:10–11Rank 5 from verse 2
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    10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But 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.

  6. 1 Corinthians 15:45Rank 6 from verse 2
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    45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

  7. John 8:32Rank 7 from verse 2
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    32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

  8. John 8:36Rank 8 from verse 2
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    36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  9. Romans 6:22Rank 9 from verse 2
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    22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

  10. Romans 7:4Rank 10 from verse 2
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    4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

  11. John 6:63Rank 11 from verse 2
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    63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

  12. John 4:10Rank 12 from verse 2
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    10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

  13. John 4:14Rank 13 from verse 2
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    14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

  14. John 7:38–39Rank 14 from verse 2
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    38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

    39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

  15. Galatians 5:1Rank 15 from verse 2
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    1STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  16. Galatians 2:19Rank 16 from verse 2
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    19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

  17. Romans 5:21Rank 17 from verse 2
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    21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

  18. Psalms 51:12Rank 18 from verse 2
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    12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

  19. Romans 7:21Rank 19 from verse 2
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    21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

  20. Romans 7:24–25Rank 20 from verse 2
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    24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

    25I 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.

  21. Revelation 22:1Rank 21 from verse 2
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    1AND he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

  22. Romans 3:27Rank 22 from verse 2
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    27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

  23. Revelation 11:11Rank 23 from verse 2
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    11And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

From verse 3

  1. Acts 13:39Rank 1 from verse 3
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    39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  2. Galatians 4:4–5Rank 2 from verse 3
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    4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

    5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

  3. Hebrews 7:18–19Rank 3 from verse 3
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    18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

    19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

  4. 2 Corinthians 5:21Rank 4 from verse 3
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    21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  5. Galatians 3:13Rank 5 from verse 3
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    13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

  6. Hebrews 10:14Rank 6 from verse 3
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    14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

  7. 1 Peter 2:24Rank 7 from verse 3
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    24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

  8. Romans 6:6Rank 8 from verse 3
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    6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

  9. 1 Peter 4:1–2Rank 9 from verse 3
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    1FORASMUCH then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  10. Hebrews 10:1–10Rank 10 from verse 3
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    1FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

    2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

    3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

    4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

    5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

    6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

    7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

    8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

    9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  11. Galatians 3:21Rank 11 from verse 3
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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

  12. Romans 3:20Rank 12 from verse 3
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    20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  13. Romans 8:32Rank 13 from verse 3
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    32He 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?

  14. Hebrews 2:14Rank 14 from verse 3
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    14Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

  15. Philippians 2:7Rank 15 from verse 3
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    7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

  16. Hebrews 10:12Rank 16 from verse 3
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    12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

  17. Hebrews 2:17Rank 17 from verse 3
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    17Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

  18. Hebrews 4:15Rank 18 from verse 3
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    15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

  19. John 1:14Rank 19 from verse 3
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    14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

  20. John 3:14–17Rank 20 from verse 3
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    14¶ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

    15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

  21. Romans 7:5–11Rank 21 from verse 3
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

    8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

    9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

    10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

    11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

  22. Romans 9:3Rank 22 from verse 3
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    3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

  23. 1 John 4:10–14Rank 23 from verse 3
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    10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

    12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

    14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

  24. John 9:24Rank 24 from verse 3
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    24Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.

  25. Mark 15:27Rank 25 from verse 3
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    27And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

From verse 4

  1. Galatians 5:16Rank 1 from verse 4
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    16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

  2. Galatians 5:22–25Rank 2 from verse 4
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    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

    23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

    24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

    25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

  3. Colossians 1:22Rank 3 from verse 4
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    22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

  4. Ephesians 5:26–27Rank 4 from verse 4
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    26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

    27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

  5. Hebrews 12:23Rank 5 from verse 4
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    23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

  6. Jude 1:24Rank 6 from verse 4
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    24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

  7. Revelation 14:5Rank 7 from verse 4
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    5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

  8. 1 John 3:2Rank 8 from verse 4
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    2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

  9. Romans 2:26Rank 9 from verse 4
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    26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

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Romans 8:2

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

law

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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

spirit

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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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Christ

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The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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free

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Sense 1: At liberty; released or exempt from bondage, confinement, service, obligation, dominion, guilt, or other restraint. Sense 2: Unrestrained, unobstructed, or at liberty to act or proceed. Sense 3: Willing, voluntary, liberal, or unreserved. Sense 4: Given or received without price, payment, or purchase.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

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DEFINED WORDS

Romans 8:3

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

law

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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Son

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A title of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Son of man.

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likeness

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Resemblance, similarity, correspondence, form, appearance, image, or representation by which one person or thing is like another.

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sinful

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Tainted by, guilty of, or characterized by sin; wicked or contrary to God's law.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

condemned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of condemn, meaning to pronounce guilty or wrong; to sentence, judge against, disapprove, or doom.

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Romans 8:4

COMBINED MEANING

law

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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

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fulfilled

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Filled up, completed, accomplished, performed, satisfied, expired, or brought fully to the appointed result, measure, time, or realization.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

spirit

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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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8:1THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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8:3For 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:

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8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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8:5For 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.

8:6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8:8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

8:9But 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.

8:10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

8:11But 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.

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