But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness. — The δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē, "righteousness") given in justification makes the spirit (πνεῦμα, pneuma, "spirit") ζῆν (zēn, "alive") even as the σῶμα (soma, "body") is νεκρὸν (nekron, "dead") with respect to sin's liability. This is the already-not yet: the believer's spirit is alive eschatologically; the body awaits resurrection. Death's power over the body is interrupted by the Spirit's life.

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