https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/romans-8.html. The person whose mind is set on the flesh will hate God and not be able to serve God.

Romans 8:12-14.—Ibid., p. 64; G. Moberly, Parochial Sermons, p. 201.

"The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". he that raised up Christ from the dead — Observe the change of name from Jesus, as the historical Individual whom God raised from the dead, to Christ, the same Individual, considered as the Lord and Head of all His members, or of redeemed Humanity [Alford]. (d) But most of all is Easter a happy day for the contrite and the humble. But, secondly, we may, if we please, take it also in the marginal translation, which is for, or because, of the Spirit that dwelleth in you, as denoting not only the cause from which, but also the reason for which, this resurrection is conferred upon them. The resurrection of Jesus is a measure and warrant both of the will and of the power of the Spirit of GOD, to bring life into what is dead. In chapter 7, Paul spoke of the limitations of the law.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures.

"Commentary on Romans 8:11". The reason is simple—the Spirit of God dwells in them. Paul spoke in general terms in verses 6-8, but now speaks directly to the Christians to whom he is writing.

Romans 6:11 (with 8).

"Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". The resurrection of Christ, in the passage before us, is ascribed to the Father and the Holy Spirit; but in other places this is also ascribed to the Son Himself.

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BibliographyAbbott, John S. C. & Abbott, Jacob. Thirdly and lastly, in regard of the cause and proceeding of it. "Commentary on Romans 8:11".

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The word “therefore” links what Paul says here to what he said earlier. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. 22.

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But though the present results of the indwelling of the spirit are not all we might desire, the future is sure. 6. For as the body is the organ of the soul in this world, so it must participate in the felicity or punishment that shall follow, whether the whole man has remained under the law, or has been received into the covenant of grace. It cannot be thought that God would leave in the grave that body in which His own Spirit has dwelt, i.e., has been with not only in close but permanent contact, though the psychological question was, of course, not present to the mind of the Apostle.

Who raised, etc. This will be done by the Spirit that dwells in us, because that Spirit has restored life to our souls, abides with us with his purifying influence, and because the design and tendency of his indwelling is to purify the entire man, and restore all to God. These shall be quickened.

The sense is, that under the gospel, by the influence of the Spirit, the entire man will be made alive in the service of God.

Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary.

https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hmc/romans-8.html. Sota, c. 9. sect.

For it might have been objected, “That Christ was able by his own power to raise up himself, and this is what no man can do.” But when he says, that God raised up Christ by his Spirit, and that he also communicated his Spirit to us, there is nothing that can be alleged to the contrary; so that he thus makes sure to us the hope of resurrection. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ges/romans-8.html. Such periphrases for God as that which this verse contains, are very common with the apostle, (see Romans 4:24, etc.,) and are peculiarly appropriate when the force of the argument in some measure rests on the fact to which the descriptive phrase refers. shall also quicken — rather, “shall quicken even”, your mortal bodies by — the true reading appears to be “by reason of.”, his Spirit that dwelleth in you — “Your bodies indeed are not exempt from the death which sin brought in; but your spirits even now have in them an undying life, and if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, even these bodies of yours, though they yield to the last enemy and the dust of them return to the dust as it was, shall yet experience the same resurrection as that of their living Head, in virtue of the indwelling of same Spirit in you that quickened Him.”. 1685. A person can read the Bible over and over and over again for the rest of their life and God will continue to speak. Jesus stepped in and fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law. "Commentary on Romans 8:11".

They are no longer, however, the evidences of God's displeasure, but of his paternal love, Hebrews 12:6. I have power to lay down my life, and the take it up again: He was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, temples of the Holy Ghost: for if any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead, dwells in you, on account of His Spirit which dwells in you, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament, "The Spirit is both the instrumental cause of the resurrection-act and the permanent substratum of the resurrection-life.