Romans 8:1-30
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8Therefore there is now no acondemnation for those who are bin cChrist Jesus. 2For athe law of the Spirit of life 1in bChrist Jesus chas set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3For awhat the Law could not do, 1,bweak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in cthe likeness of 2sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4so that the arighteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who bdo not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on athe things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, bthe things of the Spirit. 6aFor the mind set on the flesh is bdeath, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7because the mind set on the flesh is at aenmity toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8and those who are ain the flesh are not able to please God.
9However, you are not ain the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God bdwells in you. But cif anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 10aBut if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is 1alive because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of Him who araised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, bHe who raised cChrist Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 1through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12So then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13for aif you are living according to the flesh, you 1must die, but if by the Spirit you are bputting to death the cpractices of the body, you will live. 14For as many as are abeing led by the Spirit of God, these are bsons of God. 15For you ahave not received a spirit of slavery 1leading to fear again, but you bhave received the Spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, “cAbba! Father!” 16The Spirit Himself atestifies with our spirit that we are bchildren of God, 17and if children, also aheirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, bif indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Present Suffering and Future Glory
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time aare not worthy to be compared with the bglory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the aanxious longing of the creation eagerly waits for bthe revealing of the csons of God. 20For the creation awas subjected to bfutility, not willingly, but cbecause of Him who subjected it, in hope 211that athe creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation agroans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23aAnd not only this, but also we ourselves, having bthe first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves cgroan within ourselves, deagerly waiting for our adoption as sons, ethe redemption of our body. 24For ain hope we were saved, but bhope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he already sees? 25But aif we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we eagerly wait for it.
26And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for awe do not know how to pray as we should, but bthe Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27and aHe who searches the hearts knows what bthe mind of the Spirit is, because He cintercedes for the 1saints according to the will of God.
28And we know that for those who love God 1,aall things work together for good, for those who are bcalled according to His purpose. 29Because those whom He aforeknew, He also bpredestined to become cconformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the dfirstborn among many brothers; 30and those whom He apredestined, He also bcalled; and those whom He called, He also cjustified; and those whom He justified, He also dglorified.