Romans 8

¹Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation for those who [are] in Christ Jesus.

²For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life {set} you free from the law of sin and death.

³For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God [did] by sending His [own] Son in [the] likeness of sinful man, [ as an offering ] for sin. He [thus] condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who {do} not walk according to [the] flesh but according to [the] Spirit.

⁵Those who live according to [the] flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those [who live] according to [the] Spirit [set their minds on] the things of the Spirit.

⁶The mind of the flesh [is] death, but the mind of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

⁷because the mind of the flesh [is] hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it [do so].

⁸Those controlled by [the] flesh cannot please God.

⁹You, however, are controlled not by [the] flesh, but by [the] Spirit, if [the] Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone {does} not have [the] Spirit of Christ, he {does} not belong to [Christ].

¹⁰But if Christ [is] in you, [your] body [is] dead because of sin, yet [your] spirit [is] alive because of righteousness.

¹¹And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from [the] dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from [the] dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

¹²Therefore, brothers, we have [an] obligation, [but it is] not to the flesh, to live according to [it].

¹³For if you live according to [the] flesh, you will die; but if by [the] Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

¹⁴For all who are led by [the] Spirit of God are sons of God.

¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received [the] Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

¹⁶The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

¹⁷And if [we are] children, then [we are] heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ — if indeed we suffer with [Him], so that we may also be glorified with [Him].

¹⁸I consider that [our] present sufferings [are] not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

¹⁹The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁰For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the [One who] subjected [it], in hope

²¹that the creation itself will be set free from [its] bondage to decay [and brought] into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

²³Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for [our] adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

²⁴For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope [at all]. [Who] hopes for what he can already see?

²⁵But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for [it] patiently.

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes [for us] with groans too deep for words.

²⁷And He who searches [our] hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because [the Spirit] intercedes for [the] saints according to [the will] [of] God.

²⁸And we know that God works all things together for [the] good of those who love [Him], who are called according to [His] purpose.

²⁹For those [God] foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be [the] firstborn among many brothers.

³⁰And those He predestined, He also called; [those] He called, He [also] justified; [those] He justified, He also glorified.

³¹What then shall we say in response to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

³²He who did not spare [His] own Son but gave Him up for us all, how {will He} not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

³³Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? [It is] God [who] justifies.

³⁴Who [is] there to condemn [us]? [For] Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at [the] right hand of God — and He is interceding for us.

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? {Shall} trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.