Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE ARGUMENT—THE GLORIOUS COMPLETENESS OF THEM THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. (Rom. 8:1-39)
There is therefore now, etc.—referring to the immediately preceding context [OLSHAUSEN, PHILIPPI, MEYER, ALFORD, etc.]. The subject with which the seventh chapter concludes is still under consideration. The scope of Romans 8:1-4 is to show how "the law of sin and death" is deprived of its power to bring believers again into bondage, and how the holy law of God receives in them the homage of a living obedience [CALVIN, FRASER, PHILIPPI, MEYER, ALFORD, etc.].
no condemnation: to them which are in Christ Jesus—As Christ, who "knew no sin," was, to all legal effects, "made sin for us," so are we, who believe in Him, to all legal effects, "made the righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:21); and thus, one with Him in the divine reckoning. there is to such "NO CONDEMNATION." (Compare John 3:18; John 5:24; Romans 5:18-19). But this is no mere legal arrangement: it is a union in life; believers, through the indwelling of Christ's Spirit in them, having one life with Him, as truly as the head and the members of the same body have one life.
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit—The evidence of manuscripts seems to show that this clause formed no part of the original text of this verse, but that the first part of it was early introduced, and the second later, from Romans 8:4, probably as an explanatory comment, and to make the transition to Romans 8:2 easier.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 8:1:
Psalms 32:2
Psalms 34:21-22
Song of Solomon 1:5
Song of Solomon 7:9
Isaiah 54:17
John 3:6-8
Romans 8:1
Romans 8:13
1 Corinthians 9:21
2 Corinthians 3:9
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