Romans 8:14 KJV
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.
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New International Version
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
New Living Translation
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
English Standard Version, Berean Study Bible
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Berean Literal Bible, New King James Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
New American Standard Bible
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God
For as many as are led, guided and governed, by the Spirit of God
That is…
- By the Spirit of truth
- By the Spirit of grace
- By the Spirit of wisdom
- By the Spirit of holiness.
For as many
Whosoever; all who are thus led.
This introduces a new topic, illustrating the benefits of the gospel, to wit, that it produces a spirit of adoption (Romans 8:14-17).
As are led
As submit to his influence and control.
The Spirit is represented as influencing, suggesting, and controlling.
- One evidence of piety is, a willingness to yield to that influence, and submit to Him.
- One decided evidence of the lack of piety is, where there is an unwillingness to submit to that influence, but where the Holy Spirit is grieved and resisted.
- All Christians submit to His influence;
- all sinners decidedly reject it and oppose it.
- The influence of the Spirit, if followed, would lead every man to heaven.
- But when neglected, rejected, or despised, man goes down to hell.
- The glory belongs to the conducting Spirit when man is saved;
- the fault is man’s when he is lost.
The apostle here does not agitate the question how it is that the people of God are led by the Spirit, or why they yield to it when others resist it.
His design is simply to state the fact, that they who are thus led are the sons of God, or have evidence of piety.
They are the sons of God
That is,
- They stand related to God, not merely as subjects to their king, or servants to their master, but as children to their father;
- They are unspeakably near and dear to God, being spiritually begotten of him, and partaking of his nature (See John 1:12).
Are the sons of God
Are adopted into his family, and are his children.
This is a name of endearment, meaning…
- That they sustain to Him this relation;
- That they are his friends, disciples, and imitators;
- That they are parts of the great family of the redeemed, of whom he is the Father and Protector.
It is often applied to Christians in the Bible (Job 1:6; John 1:12; Philippians 2:15; 1 John 3:1-2; Matthew 5:9, 45; Luke 6:35).
This is a test of piety which is easily applied:
- Are you conscious that an influence from above has been drawing you away from the corrupting passions and vanities of this world? – This is the work of the Spirit.
- Are you conscious of a desire to yield to that influence, and to be conducted in the path of purity and life? – This is an evidence that we are the sons of God.
- Do you offer no resistance; do you follow cheerfully, and do you obey this pure influence, leading you to mortify pride, subdue passion, destroy lust, humble ambition, and annihilate the love of wealth and of the world? – If so, you are His child.
God will not lead us astray; and our peace and happiness consists only in yielding ourselves to this influence entirely, and in being willing to be conducted by this unseen hand “beside the still waters of salvation.”
Greek
For ☆ γὰρ (gar) ☆ Conjunction ☆ For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.
All who ☆ ὅσοι (hosoi) ☆ Personal / Relative Pronoun – Nominative Masculine Plural ☆ How much, how great, how many, as great as, as much. By reduplication from hos; as As.
Are led ☆ ἄγονται (agontai) ☆ Verb – Present Indicative Middle or Passive – 3rd Person Plural ☆ A primary verb; properly, to lead; by implication, to bring, drive, go, pass, or induce.
By [the] Spirit ☆ Πνεύματι (Pneumati) ☆ Noun – Dative Neuter Singular ☆ Wind, breath, spirit.
Of God ☆ Θεοῦ (Theou) ☆ Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular ☆ A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.
Are ☆ εἰσιν (eisin) ☆ Verb – Present Indicative Active – 3rd Person Plural ☆ I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.
Sons ☆ υἱοί (huioi) ☆ Noun – Nominative Masculine Plural ☆ A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a ‘son’, used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.
Of God ☆ Θεοῦ (Theou) ☆ Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular ☆ A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very
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