Romans 8
1 So then, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did: he sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and, because of sin, condemned sin in the flesh.
4 This was so that the Law’s righteous requirement might be fulfilled in us, who do not live 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 set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God: it does not submit to God’s law, and indeed cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.
12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put the body’s practices to death, you will live.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are God’s children.
15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery, to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption as children, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children.
17 And if we are children, we are also heirs: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
19 For creation eagerly waits for the revealing of God’s children.
20 For creation was subjected to futility, not by its own choice, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope.
21 For creation itself will also be set free from slavery to decay and brought into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.
22 For we know that all creation groans together and suffers birth pains together until now.
23 And not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as children, the redemption of our bodies.
24 For we were saved in hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what they already see?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with perseverance.
26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groans.
27 And the one who searches hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the holy ones in accord with God’s will.
28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those he knew beforehand, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also declared righteous; and those he declared righteous, he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say in view of these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but handed him over for us all, how will he not also graciously give us all things with him?
33 Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is the one who declares them righteous.
34 Who will condemn them? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at God’s right hand and also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or sword?
36 As it is written: “For your sake we are put to death all day long; we are considered as sheep for slaughter.”
37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through the one who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 neither 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.
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