of sin—and all this because it is ‘from God’. ‘We have’ is daring, and probably ought to be understood as expressing Paul’s confidence in his ultimate resurrection. His future possession of a glorious body is so certain that he can refer to his occupancy of it as having in principle already commenced. He has been given the key to the door even though he has not yet unlocked it. The employment of a present tense to expound future reality is by no means uncommon, thus lending credibility to the view.