THE BOOK OF ROMANS

 

Romans Chapter 8

1 ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

3 For God has done what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. Sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5 For those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit have their minds set on the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be fleshly minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7 Because the fleshly mind is hostile to 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 the Spirit of God truly dwells in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not one of his.

10 ¶ But if Christ lives in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13 For 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.

14 For those who are being led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God.

15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

19 For creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

20 For the creation was not made subject to futility, by its own choice, but because of him who has subjected it in hope,

21 That the creation itself will be delivered from its bondage to decay into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning and travailing in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.

24 For we were saved in this hope: but hope that is seen is no hope at all: for who hopes for what he already has?

25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, then we wait for it patiently.

26 ¶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness: for we do not know what we should pray for as we should: but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.

27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are the called according to his purpose.

29 ¶ For whom God foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover those he predestinated, he also called: and those he called, he also justified: and those he justified, he also glorified.

31 ¶ What shall we say then in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

32 He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

34 Who is there to condemn us? Christ who died, yea rather, who was raised from the dead, is at the right hand of God, and also intercedes for us.

35 What shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am convinced, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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