1Thereis therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, ⚓who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2For ⚓the law of ⚓the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from ⚓the law of sin and death. 3For ⚓what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, ⚓God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ⚓do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For ⚓those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those wholive according to the Spirit, ⚓the things of the Spirit. 6For ⚓to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because ⚓the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, ⚓nor indeed can be. 8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But 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. 10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of ⚓Him 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. 13For ⚓if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you ⚓put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For ⚓as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15For ⚓you did not receive the spirit of bondage again ⚓to fear, but you received the ⚓Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ⚓“Abba, Father.” 16⚓The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then ⚓heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, ⚓if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
From Suffering to Glory
18For I consider that ⚓the sufferings of this present time are not worthy tobecompared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For ⚓the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20For ⚓the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious ⚓liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation ⚓groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23Not only that, but we also who have ⚓the firstfruits of the Spirit, ⚓even we ourselves groan ⚓within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the ⚓redemption of our body. 24For we were saved in this hope, but ⚓hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For ⚓we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but ⚓the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27Now ⚓He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints ⚓according to thewillof God. 28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those ⚓who are the called according to His purpose. 29For whom ⚓He foreknew, ⚓He also predestined ⚓tobe conformed to the image of His Son, ⚓that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom He predestined, these He also ⚓called; whom He called, these He also ⚓justified; and whom He justified, these He also ⚓glorified.
God’s Everlasting Love
31What then shall we say to these things? ⚓If God is for us, who canbe against us? 32⚓He who did not spare His own Son, but ⚓delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? ⚓Itis God who justifies. 34⚓Who is he who condemns? Itis Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, ⚓who is even at the right hand of God, ⚓who also makes intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As 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. 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor ⚓principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor 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.