Romans 8:1-27 ▼

1 Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

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

3 For what the law was incapable of in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent His Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, those not walking according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

5 For those being according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those 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 hostility toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able.

8 And those being in the flesh are not able to please God.

9 But you? are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you?; and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not of Him.

10 But if Christ is in you?, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

11 And if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus out from the dead dwells in you?, the One having raised Christ Jesus out from the dead will also make alive your? mortal bodies through His Spirit, the One dwelling in you?.

12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

13 For if you? live according to the flesh, you? are about to 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 sons of God.

15 For you? did not receive a spirit of slavery again unto fear, but you? received the Spirit of adoption as sons, in whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

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

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory about to be revealed in us.

19 For the eager expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the One having subjected it, in hope

21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay, into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

22 For we know that all the creation groans together and travails together until now.

23 And not only so, but we ourselves, even having the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

24 For in hope we were saved, but hope being seen is not hope. For does anyone hope for what he sees?

25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await in perseverance.

26 Now likewise also, the Spirit joins to help in our weakness; for we do not know the things that we should pray for as it is necessary, but the Spirit Himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.

27 And the One searching hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He intercedes for the saints according to God.