1 The Spirit of God Dwells in You Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life 8:2 Or has set you free in Christ Jesus in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the Law could not do, 8:3Lit in which it was weak weak as it was through the flesh, Goddid: sending His own Son in the likeness of 8:3Lit flesh of sin sinful flesh andas an offeringfor sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even ableto do so,
8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is 8:10Lit life alive because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 8:11One early ms because of through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12 So then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you 8:13 Or are going to must die, but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the practices of the body, you will live.
14 For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery 8:15Lit for fear again leading to fear again, but you have receivedtheSpirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, also heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer withHimso that we may also be glorified withHim.Present Suffering and Future Glory
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
19 For the anxious longing of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
21 8:21 Or because that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting forouradoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
24 For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what healreadysees?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we eagerly wait for it.
26 And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes foruswith groanings too deep for words;
27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the 8:27Or holy ones saints according tothe will ofGod.
28 And we know that for those who love God 8:28 Some mss God works all things together for good all things work together for good, for those who are called according toHispurpose.
29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinedto becomeconformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers;
30 and those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified.God Is for Us
31 What then shall we say to these things? If Godisfor us, whoisagainst us?
32 He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?
33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was 8:34One early ms raised from the dead raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of 8:35Two early mss God Christ? Will affliction, or turmoil, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Just as it is written,“ForYour sake we are being put to death all day long;We were counted as sheep fortheslaughter.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.