Romans 8:10 : And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. This verse has given no end of trouble to commentators. They are not agreed as to what is meant by the clause, "the body is dead because of sin." Lard thinks it means that the body is dead on account of sin in the sense that it is doomed to death on ac-count of Adam's sin. Some others hold practically the same idea. But it sounds foolish to say: "If Christ is in you, the body is doomed to death on account of Adam's sin." That would imply that if Christ did not dwell in us the body would not be doomed to death on account of Adam's sin. As a matter of fact, the body is doomed to die physically, whether Christ dwells in us or does not dwell in us. Besides, that construction does not agree with the context. In the latter part of chapter 7, Paul spoke of the flesh as the source of sin. Because the appetites and passions of the flesh lead to so much sin Paul calls it "sinful flesh" (Romans 8:3). For that reason the flesh is crucified--put. to death as to sin. "And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts thereof" (Galatians 5:24). Hence, "if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of the sin to which it leads"; or, more exactly, "the body is dead on account of sin that dwells in it." "But the spirit is life because of righteousness"--that is, on account of the righteousness to which we attain in the forgiveness, or blotting out, of our sins. Hence, if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin which it tends, but the spirit is life on account of the righteousness to which we attain in Christ.