Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Romans 8:14 - 8:14
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Sons of God (huioi theou). In the full sense of this term. In Rom 8:16 we have tekna theou (children of God). Hence no great distinction can be drawn between huios and teknon. The truth is that huios is used in various ways in the New Testament. In the highest sense, not true of any one else, Jesus Christ is God’s Son (Rom 8:3). But in the widest sense all men are “the offspring” (genos) of God as shown in Act 17:28 by Paul. But in the special sense here only those are “sons of God” who are led by the Spirit of God, those born again (the second birth) both Jews and Gentiles, “the sons of Abraham” (huioi Abraam, Gal 3:7), the children of faith.