Romans 8
1 There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3 What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,
For what the law was unable to do because it was weak through the flesh, God did. He sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be an offering for sin, and he condemned sin in the flesh.
4 so that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.
He did this in order that the requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us, we who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.
Those who live according to the flesh pay attention to the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit pay attention to the things of the Spirit.
6 To be earthly-minded means death, to be spiritually minded means life and peace;
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God's law, nor is it able to do so.
8 They who are earthly cannot please God.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a person has the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ;
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is true that God's Spirit lives in you. But if someone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
10 but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life as a consequence of righteousness.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead with respect to sin, but the spirit is alive with respect to righteousness.
11 And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
12 So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, but not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
13 If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
For if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the body's actions, you will live.
14 All who are guided by the Spirit of God are children of God.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a child by adoption, which leads us to cry ‘Abba, our Father.’
You did not receive a spirit that makes you slaves, so that you live in fear again; but you received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
16 The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God’s children,
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
17 and if children, then heirs – heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his glory.
If we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God. And we are joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
18 I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the glory that is to be revealed and bestowed on us.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed to us.
19 All nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God.
For the eager expectation of the creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For nature was made subject to imperfection – not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so –
For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in the certain hope
21 yet not without the hope that some day nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God.
that the creation itself will be delivered from slavery to decay, and that it will be brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22 We know, indeed, that all nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.
For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain together even now.
23 And not nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit – we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons – the redemption of our bodies.
Not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit—even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?
For in this certain hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he can see?
25 But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.
But if we have certain hope about what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26 So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps in our weakness. For we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groans.
27 Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit’s meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ’s people are in accordance with his will.
He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to the will of God.
28 But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him – those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose.
We know that for those who love God, he works all things together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many brothers and sisters.
Because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to glory.
Those whom he predestined, these he also called. Those whom he called, these he also justified. Those whom he justified, these he also glorified.
31 What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us?
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32 God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?
He who did not spare his own Son but delivered him up on behalf of us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things?
33 Who will bring a charge against any of God’s people? He who pronounces them righteous is God!
Who will bring any accusation against God's chosen ones? God is the one who justifies.
34 Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! – or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!
Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
35 Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 Scripture says – ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’
Just as it is written, “For your benefit we are killed all day long. We were considered as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet amid all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!
In all these things we are more than conquerors through the one who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor archangels, nor the present, nor the future, nor any powers,
For I have been convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor governments, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
