Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NASB No condemnation – More than anything I want this verse to be true. “No condemnation,” οὐδέν κατάκριμα (ouden katakrima) in Greek is very strong. The “no” is unconditional. “No one, nothing, not ever” is the sense of it. That’s good news. According…
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NASB No condemnation – Celebrate! The judgment has been cancelled! That sounds great, doesn’t it? You and I are freed from the verdict that hung over us. The penalty that we deserved has been lifted. Joy should flood our lives….
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NASB No condemnation – The classical Greek meaning of krima includes “dividing out,” “sifting,” “judging,” and “deciding.” It is connected in the LXX to the Hebrew idea of restoring “the legal relationship which has been disrupted.”[1] But as we learned…
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NASB No condemnation – Is Paul speaking the truth? If you’re part of the assembly of followers of Yeshua HaMashiach, are you free from condemnation? Oh, I understand the theory! But this hasn’t been my experience! Perhaps you are blessed…
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:1-2 NASB No condemnation – Paul is pretty intense. He opens the sentence with ouden. It means, “not…
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 Condemnation – So, now you know that the Greek word katakrima is about a judicial pronouncement of guilt. In Greek, Paul tells us that we are not one bit guilty. We are not judged worthy of death. But what would…
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 Therefore – With this most important use of the Greek gar (therefore) in the whole letter to the Romans, Paul summarizes the entire argument of the first seven chapters. This little connector brings to conclusion everything that he has been…
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus Romans 8:1 No Condemnation – It seems as though all of my life I have been reminded that I am not good enough. Leftover childhood trauma made me an overachiever, but every overachiever knows that under the skin is a fragile human…
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (footnote)” Romans 8:1 (footnote) – If you read the King James, you will find that verse 1 of chapter 8 continues with “who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit”. But if you read the NASB or the NIV or…
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” Romans 8:1 No – Greek has no exclamation marks. So, in order to put emphasis on the most important word in a sentence, Greek often places the word first. Of course, it doesn’t make good English but unless we know the order…
