Free from Indwelling Sin
1 Thereistherefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 Forthe law ofthe Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free fromthe law of sin and death.
3 Forwhat the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh,Goddidby sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us whodo not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 Forthose who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but thosewholiveaccording to the Spirit,the things of the Spirit.
6 Forto be carnally mindedisdeath, but to be spiritually mindedislife and peace.
7 Becausethe carnal mindisenmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God,nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10 And if Christisin you, the bodyisdead because of sin, but the Spiritislife because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit ofHim who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Sonship Through the Spirit
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 Forif you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit youput to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 Foras many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15 Foryou did not receive the spirit of bondage againto fear, but you received theSpirit of adoption by whom we cry out,“Abba, Father.”
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, thenheirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,if indeed we suffer withHim,that we may also be glorified together.
From Suffering to Glory
18 For I consider thatthe sufferings of this present time are not worthytobecomparedwith the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 Forthe earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 Forthe creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjecteditin hope;
21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the gloriousliberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creationgroans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
23 Not onlythat,but we also who havethe firstfruits of the Spirit,even we ourselves groanwithin ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, theredemption of our body.
24 For we were saved in this hope, buthope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait foritwith perseverance.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. Forwe do not know what we should pray for as we ought, butthe Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 NowHe who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spiritis,because He makes intercession for the saintsaccording tothewillofGod.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to thosewho are the called according toHispurpose.
29 For whomHe foreknew,He also predestinedtobeconformed to the image of His Son,that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He alsocalled; whom He called, these He alsojustified; and whom He justified, these He alsoglorified.
God’s Everlasting Love
31 What then shall we say to these things?If Godisfor us, whocanbeagainst us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, butdelivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?ItisGod who justifies.
34 Whoishe who condemns?ItisChrist who died, and furthermore is also risen,who is even at the right hand of God,who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?Shalltribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written:
# “For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet 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 norprincipalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.