{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.15.10.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 15:10","href":"/jhn/15/#v10-calvin","text":"Romans 8:1","snippet":"They who are in Christ walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, (Romans 8:1."},{"id":"henry.JHN.5.24.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 5:24","href":"/jhn/5/#v24-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 1","snippet":"A believer shall not only not lie under condemnation eternally, but shall not come into condemnation now, not come into the danger of it (Rom. viii. 1), not come into judgment, not be so much as arraigned. 2."}],"2":[],"3":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.14.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"Nay, flesh bespeaks man tainted with sin (Gen. vi. 3), and Christ, though he was perfectly holy and harmless, yet appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. viii. 3), and was made sin for us, 2 Cor. v. 21."},{"id":"henry.JHN.7.24.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 7:24","href":"/jhn/7/#v24-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"With reference to himself, his outward appearance was far short of his real dignity and excellency, for he took upon him the form of a servant (Phil. ii. 7), was in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. viii. 3), had no form nor comeliness, Isa. liii. 2. ..."},{"id":"henry.JHN.9.24.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 9:24","href":"/jhn/9/#v24-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"When he became man, he took upon him the form not only of a servant, but of a sinner (Rom. viii. 3), and passed for a sinner in common with the rest of mankind."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.3.14.3","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 3:14","href":"/jhn/3/#v14-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"(Rom. viii. 3."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.14.3","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"The phrases which point towards it in St John (1 John iv. 2), in the Epistle to the Hebrews (ii. 14), and in St Paul (Rom. viii. 3 ; Phil. ii. 7 ; 1 Tim. iii. 16) fall short of the majestic fulness of this brief sentence, which affirms once for all the reconciliation of the opposite elements of the final antithesis of life and thought, the finite …"},{"id":"westcott.JHN.5.23.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 5:23","href":"/jhn/5/#v23-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"The phrase He that sent me is peculiar to St John (comp. Rom. viii. 3)."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.6.51.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 6:51","href":"/jhn/6/#v51-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 3","snippet":"See also i. 13, iii. 6, vi. 63, viii. 15, xvii. 2 ; 1 John ii. 16, iv. 2 ; 2 John 7 ; Rom. viii. 3 ; 1 Tim. iii. 16 ; Hebr. v. 7."}],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[],"7":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.4.31-42.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 4:31–42","href":"/jhn/4/#v31-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 7","snippet":"(Rom. viii. 7."}],"8":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.3.6.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 3:6","href":"/jhn/3/#v6-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 8","snippet":"(Rom. viii. 8."}],"9":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.8.23.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 8:23","href":"/jhn/8/#v23-chrysostom","text":"Rom. viii. 9","snippet":"As then Paul, when he saith, “Ye are not in the flesh” ( Rom. viii. 9 ), doth not mean that they are incorporeal, so Christ when He saith, that His disciples are “not of the world,” doth nothing else than testify to their heavenly wisdom."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.15.26.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 15:26","href":"/jhn/15/#v26-bengel","text":"Rom. viii. 9","snippet":"but) The testimony of the Paraclete (Comforter) and of the disciples i is put in contrast with the ignorance and hatred of the world. ... from the Father) The Spirit of God is the same as the Spirit of Christ : Rom. viii. 9; Gal. iv. 6."}],"10":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.7.38.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 7:38","href":"/jhn/7/#v38-calvin","text":"Romans 8:10","snippet":"But the meaning is, that the Holy Spirit is like a living and continually flowing fountain in believers; as Paul also declares that he is life in us, (Romans 8:10,) though we still carry about, in the remains of sin, the cause of death."},{"id":"calvin.JHN.8.52.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 8:52","href":"/jhn/8/#v52-calvin","text":"Romans 8:10","snippet":"the Spirit, dwelling in them, is life on account of righteousness, (Romans 8:10,)"}],"11":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.2.19.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 2:19","href":"/jhn/2/#v19-calvin","text":"Romans 8:11","snippet":"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, (Romans 8:11."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.2.21.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 2:21","href":"/jhn/2/#v21-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 11","snippet":"For the usage see 1 Cor. vi. 19 ; Rom. viii. 11."}],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[{"id":"henry.JHN.16.13.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 16:13","href":"/jhn/16/#v13-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 14","snippet":"The Spirit is given us to be our guide (Rom. viii. 14), not only to show us the way, but to go along with us, by his continued aids and influences."}],"15":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.6.40.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 6:40","href":"/jhn/6/#v40-calvin","text":"Romans 8:15","snippet":"For the testimony of the Holy Spirit is nothing else than the sealing of our adoption, (Romans 8:15."},{"id":"calvin.JHN.9.31.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 9:31","href":"/jhn/9/#v31-calvin","text":"Romans 8:15","snippet":"It is by a special privilege that he invites his children to himself; and it is the Spirit of adoption alone that crieth out in our hearts, Abba, Father, (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.14.17.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 14:17","href":"/jhn/14/#v17-westcott","text":"viii. 15","snippet":"Eph. i. 17; Luke xiii. 11; Rom. i. 4, viii. 15, xi. 8; 1 Cor. iv. 21 ; 2 Tim. i. 7. ..."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.16.26.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 16:26","href":"/jhn/16/#v26-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 15","snippet":"27. the Father himself, without any pleading on my part, loveth you with the love which springs from a natural relationship ..., for the disciples are also sons (Rom. viii. 15)."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.17.1.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 17:1","href":"/jhn/17/#v1-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 15","snippet":"If the prayer was (as is likely) spoken in Aramaean, we cannot but recall Mark xiv. 36 ; Rom. viii. 15 ; Gal. iv. 6 ...."}],"16":[],"17":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.8.42.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 8:42","href":"/jhn/8/#v42-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 17","snippet":"(Rom. viii. 17."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.12.26.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 12:26","href":"/jhn/12/#v26-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 17","snippet":"(Rom. viii. 17.)"}],"18":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.16.21.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 16:21","href":"/jhn/16/#v21-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 18","snippet":"(Compare Rom. viii. 18—22 ; 2 Cor. iv. 17.)"}],"19":[],"20":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.3.7-8.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 3:7–8","href":"/jhn/3/#v7-chrysostom","text":"Rom. viii. 20","snippet":"( Rom. viii. 20."}],"21":[{"id":"henry.JHN.8.35.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 8:35","href":"/jhn/8/#v35-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 21","snippet":"He shows them the way of deliverance out of the state of bondage into the glorious liberty of the children of God, Rom. viii. 21."}],"22":[{"id":"henry.JHN.16.21.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 16:21","href":"/jhn/16/#v21-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 22","snippet":"… in this world; they are like travailing pains, sure and sharp, but not to last long, and in order to a joyful product; they are in pain to be delivered, as the church is described (Rev. xii. 2), and the whole creation, Rom. viii. 22."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.16.21.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 16:21","href":"/jhn/16/#v21-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 22","snippet":"We are distinctly told in Rom. viii. 22, that \" the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain until now."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.16.21.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 16:21","href":"/jhn/16/#v21-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 22","snippet":"Matt. xxiv. 8 ; Mark xiii. 8 ... ; Rom. viii. 22 ...."}],"23":[],"24":[],"25":[],"26":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.16.29.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 16:29","href":"/jhn/16/#v29-calvin","text":"Romans 8:26","snippet":"… roads which the Spirit of God produces in the hearts of the godly are sufficient proofs that God worketh in a secret manner beyond their capacity; for otherwise Paul would not call them groans that cannot be uttered, (Romans 8:26."},{"id":"henry.JHN.14.9.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 14:9","href":"/jhn/14/#v9-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 26","snippet":"Note, Herein appears much of the weakness of Christ's disciples that they know not what to pray for as they ought (Rom. viii. 26), but often ask amiss (Jam. iv. 3), for that which either is not promised or is already bestowed in the sense of the promise, as here."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.14.16.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 14:16","href":"/jhn/14/#v16-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 26","snippet":"(See Rom. viii. 26 ; Matt, x, 19, 20."}],"27":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.5.39.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 5:39","href":"/jhn/5/#v39-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 27","snippet":"Comp. Rom. viii. 27; 1 Cor. ii. 10; Rev. ii. 23."}],"28":[],"29":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.20.17.3","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 20:17","href":"/jhn/20/#v17-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 29","snippet":"Hebr. ii. 11; Rom. viii. 29."}],"30":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.19.16.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 19:16","href":"/jhn/19/#v16-ryle","text":"viii. 30","snippet":"(Rom. iv. 25 ; viii. 30."}],"31":[],"32":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.5.18.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 5:18","href":"/jhn/5/#v18-bengel","text":"Rom. viii. 32","snippet":"His own: equal) His own Father’s own Son: Rom. viii. 32, “ He that spared not His own Son."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.3.16.3","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 3:16","href":"/jhn/3/#v16-ryle","text":"viii. 32","snippet":"(Rom. iv. 25 ; viii. 32."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.5.18.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 5:18","href":"/jhn/5/#v18-ryle","text":"Rom. viii. 32","snippet":"(Compare Rom. viii. 32)."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.5.18.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 5:18","href":"/jhn/5/#v18-westcott","text":"Rom. viii. 32","snippet":"They saw that He claimed the power of abrogating the law of the Sabbath in virtue of His absolutely special relation to God: He called God His own Father (Rom. viii. 32) — His Father in a peculiar sense — making Himself equal with God, by placing His action on the same level with the action of God."}],"33":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.8.35-36.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 8:35–36","href":"/jhn/8/#v35-chrysostom","text":"Rom. viii. 33, 34","snippet":"( Rom. viii. 33, 34."},{"id":"henry.JHN.9.3.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 9:3","href":"/jhn/9/#v3-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 33, 34","snippet":"… are great sufferers, lest we be found, not only persecuting those whom God has smitten (Ps. lxix. 26), but accusing those whom he has justified, and condemning those for whom Christ died, which is daring and dangerous, Rom. viii. 33, 34."}],"34":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.8.35-36.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 8:35–36","href":"/jhn/8/#v35-chrysostom","text":"Rom. viii. 33, 34","snippet":"( Rom. viii. 33, 34."},{"id":"calvin.JHN.16.26.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 16:26","href":"/jhn/16/#v26-calvin","text":"Romans 8:34","snippet":"Paul also testifies that Christ now intercedes for us, (Romans 8:34;) and the same thing is confirmed by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, who declares that Christ always liveth to make intercession for us, (Hebrews 7:25."},{"id":"henry.JHN.9.3.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 9:3","href":"/jhn/9/#v3-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 33, 34","snippet":"… are great sufferers, lest we be found, not only persecuting those whom God has smitten (Ps. lxix. 26), but accusing those whom he has justified, and condemning those for whom Christ died, which is daring and dangerous, Rom. viii. 33, 34."},{"id":"henry.JHN.17.13.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 17:13","href":"/jhn/17/#v13-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 34","snippet":"… more effectual to silence all our fears and mistrusts, and to furnish us with strong consolation, than this, that he always appears in the presence of God for us; therefore the apostle puts a yea rather upon this, Rom. viii. 34."}],"35":[{"id":"henry.JHN.6.56.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 6:56","href":"/jhn/6/#v56-henry","text":"Rom. viii. 35","snippet":"It is an inseparable union, like that between the body and digested food, Rom. viii. 35; 1 John iv. 13."}],"36":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.6.39.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 6:39","href":"/jhn/6/#v39-calvin","text":"Romans 8:36","snippet":"For in what respect do believers differ from wicked men, but that, overwhelmed with afflictions, and like sheep destined for the slaughter, (Romans 8:36,) they have always one foot in the grave, and, indeed, are not far from being continually swallowed up by death?"}],"37":[],"38":[],"39":[]}}