Romans 8

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus,

²because in Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

³For what the Law was not able to do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did when he condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin,

⁴so that the righteous requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

⁵For those who are living according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the spirit, set their minds on the things of the spirit.

⁶For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the spirit is life and peace,

⁷because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God since it does not submit to the law of God; indeed, it cannot do so.

⁸Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, this person is not his.

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

¹¹Moreover, if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from among the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from among the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his spirit that dwells in you.

¹²So then, brothers and sisters, we do not have an obligation to the flesh, that is, to live according to the flesh.

¹³For if you live according to the flesh, you will certainly die, but if by the spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

¹⁴For all who are led by the spirit of God are sons and daughters of God.

¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit of slavery making you live in fear again, but you received a spirit of adoption, by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

¹⁶The spirit itself bears witness to our spirit that we are children of God,

¹⁷and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if in fact we suffer with him so that we will also be glorified with him.

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

¹⁹For creation waits with eager anticipation for the children of God to be revealed,

²⁰for the creation was subjected to frustration (not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it) in the hope

²¹that the creation itself will also be freed from its slavery to corruption and delivered into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

²²For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together and suffering birth pains up to the present time.

²³And not only that, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the spirit—we are also groaning within ourselves, eagerly waiting for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

²⁴For in hope of this we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he already sees?

²⁵But if we hope for what we do not yet see, then with endurance we eagerly wait for it.

²⁶In the same way, the spirit also helps us with our weakness, because we do not know what we should pray for, but the spirit itself intercedes for us with groaning that cannot be expressed in words.

²⁷And He who searches our hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit, because it makes intercession for the holy ones according to the will of God.

²⁸Now we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him—for those who are the called ones in accordance with his purpose—

²⁹because those whom he foreknew, he also decided in advance would be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters,

³⁰and those whom he decided in advance would be conformed to the image of his Son, he also called, and those whom he called, he also declared righteous, and those whom he declared righteous, he also glorified.

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

³²Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also freely give us everything else along with giving us him?

³³Who can bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is the one who declares us righteous.

³⁴Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but more than that, who was raised from among the dead, who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

³⁵What can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

³⁶As it is written: For your sake we are being put to 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, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.