Romans 8:10 (WEB)
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Fathers and councils · 18
Irenaeus of Lyons
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit dwelling in you.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10, etc.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Hope and endure until the night,—the mother of the wicked,—until the anger of the Lord be overpast, whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness, the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin, “until the day break and the shadows flee away.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Whence the Apostle spoke not of the body as if to die, but as if dead: “The body indeed is dead,” he saith, “because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For “the body is dead,” saith the Apostle, “because of sin.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
Read the whole comment“…who shall teach us all truth, when God, who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall also quicken our mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in us.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“…in this corruption and mortality, when as yet “the corruptible body weigheth down the soul;” and, what the Apostle saith, “the body is dead by reason of sin;” yet the same himself beareth such witness unto our flesh, that is, to our lowest and earthly part, as to say, what I made mention of a little above, “No one…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10
Read the whole comment“…in a certain place in the Scriptures, namely, where the apostle says, that “the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10
Read the whole comment“Then he adds, “But 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.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“They may also be called dead, because they wear mortal bodies, as the apostle says, “The body indeed is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness;” proving that in a living man in the body there is both a body which is dead, and a spirit which is life.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For if Christ were not even now in us, the apostle would not say, “And if Christ be in you, the body is dead indeed because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“And again, “It is the Spirit that quickeneth”; and, “Shall quicken you by His Spirit which dwelleth in you” ( Rom. viii. 11 ); and, “The Spirit is Life because of righteousness” ( Rom. viii. 10 ); and, “If ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the Law.” ( Gal. v. 18.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“…I give unto them eternal life;” but “the Spirit” also, it is said, “giveth life,” and again “the Spirit,” it is said, “is life, because of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And having spoken of the Spirit, that we might understand that where the Holy Spirit is there is Christ, he added: “But if Christ be in you.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10.
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Tertullian
“And, again, he says that “the body is dead;” but it is “because of sin,” even as “the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Ver. 10.
Read the whole comment“…to our aid; for, while explaining in what sense he would not have us “live in the flesh,” although in the flesh—even by not living in the works of the flesh—he shows that when he wrote the words, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,” it was not with the view of condemning the substance (of the…” — editor's note: See Rom. viii. 5–13.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Christ from the dead dwelleth in you; He Who raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit Who dwelleth in you.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 9–11.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quando enim sanctificatum fuerit Deo, “Spiritus ejus,” infert, “qui suscitavit Jesum a mortuis, habitat in vobis: qui vivificabit etiam mortalia vestra corpora, per ejus Spiritum, qui habitat in vobis.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“And whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30.
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in The City of God XX.15.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in The City of God XX.15.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.9.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.