This is the converse of the preceding; it is human, and yet not legal, being the righteous acts and ways of the believer who has died, and risen with Christ, and who stands before God in divine righteousness. Such an one is not in the flesh (Rom. 8:9), to which alone the law supplies (“thou shalt not, &c.”). Hence the law is not his rule of life, although he fulfills its righteous requirement (8:4), by walking in the Spirit. This practical righteousness brings suffering (1 Pet. 3)