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1 There
is therefore now
no condemnation to
those who are
in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk
according to
the flesh, but
according to the
Spirit.
2 For
the law of
the Spirit of
life in Christ
Jesus made me free
from the law
of sin and of
death.
3 For
what the
law couldn’t do,
in that it
was weak through
the flesh, God
did, sending his
own Son in
the likeness
of sinful flesh
and for sin, he
condemned sin in
the flesh,
4 that
the ordinance of
the law might
be fulfilled in
us who don’t
walk according to
the flesh, but
according to the
Spirit.
5 For
those who live
according to the
flesh set their
minds on the
things of the
flesh, but those
who live according
to the Spirit,
the things of
the Spirit.
6 For
the mind of
the flesh is
death, but the
mind of the
Spirit is life
and peace;
7 because
the mind of
the flesh is
hostile toward God,
for it is
not subject to
God’s law, neither
indeed can it
be.
8 Those
who are in
the flesh can’t
please God.
9 But
you are not
in the flesh
but in the
Spirit, if it
is so that
the Spirit of
God dwells in
you. But if
any man doesn’t
have the Spirit
of Christ, he
is not his.
10 If
Christ is in
you, the body
is dead because
of sin, but the
spirit is alive
because of
righteousness.
11 But
if the Spirit
of him who
raised up Jesus
from the dead
dwells in you,
he who raised
up Christ Jesus
from the dead
will also give
life to your
mortal bodies
through his Spirit
who dwells in
you.
12 So
then, brothers, we
are debtors, not
to the flesh,
to live after
the flesh.
13 For
if you live
after the flesh,
you must die;
but if by
the Spirit you
put to death
the deeds of
the body, you
will live.
14 For
as many as
are led by the
Spirit of God,
these are children
of God.
15 For
you didn’t receive
the spirit of
bondage again to
fear, but you
received the
Spirit of adoption,
by whom we
cry, “Abba!
Father!”
16 The
Spirit himself testifies
with our spirit
that we are
children of God;
17 and
if children, then
heirs—heirs of
God and joint
heirs with Christ,
if indeed we
suffer with him,
that we may
also be glorified
with him.
18 For
I consider that
the sufferings of
this present time
are not worthy to
be compared with
the glory which
will be revealed
toward us.
19 For
the creation waits
with eager expectation for
the children of
God to be revealed.
20 For
the creation was
subjected to
vanity, not of
its own will, but
because of him
who subjected it,
in hope
21 that
the creation itself
also will be
delivered from the
bondage of decay
into the liberty
of the glory
of the children
of God.
22 For
we know that
the whole creation
groans and travails
in pain together
until now.
23 Not
only so, but
ourselves also,
who have the
first fruits of
the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan
within ourselves, waiting
for adoption,
the redemption of
our body.
24 For
we were saved
in hope, but
hope that is seen
is not hope.
For who hopes
for that which
he sees?
25 But
if we hope
for that which
we don’t see, we
wait for it
with patience.
26 In
the same way,
the Spirit also
helps our weaknesses,
for we don’t
know how to
pray as we
ought. But the
Spirit himself makes intercession
for us with
groanings which
can’t be uttered.
27 He
who searches the
hearts knows what
is on the
Spirit’s mind,
because he makes
intercession for
the saints according
to God.
28 We
know that all
things work
together for good
for those who love
God, for those
who are called
according to his
purpose.
29 For
whom he foreknew,
he also
predestined to be
conformed to the
image of his
Son, that he
might be the
firstborn among
many brothers.
30 Whom
he predestined,
those he also
called. Whom he
called, those he
also justified.
Whom he justified,
those he also
glorified.
31 What
then shall we
say about these
things? If God
is for us,
who can be
against us?
32 He
who didn’t spare
his own Son,
but delivered him
up for us
all, how would
he not also
with him freely
give us all
things?
33 Who
could bring a
charge against
God’s chosen ones?
It is God
who justifies.
34 Who
is he who
condemns? It is
Christ who died,
yes rather, who
was raised from
the dead, who is
at the right
hand of God,
who also makes
intercession for
us.
35 Who
shall separate us
from the love of
Christ? Could oppression,
or anguish, or
persecution, or
famine, or
nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
36 Even
as it is
written,
“For your sake
we are killed
all day long.
We were accounted
as sheep for
the slaughter.”
37 No,
in all these
things we are
more than conquerors
through him
who loved us.
38 For
I am persuaded
that neither death,
nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
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
God’s love which
is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.