 1 Now there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according+ to the flesh but according+ to the Spirit. John 3:18 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according+ to the flesh, but according+ to the Spirit. 5 For those who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. But those who are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. 6 To be worldly+ minded is death. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the worldly+ mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it 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 indeed+ the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they are not His. 10 If Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life+ to your mortal bodies by His Spirit who dwells in you. 12 Therefore family+, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live after the flesh, 13 for if you live after the flesh you shall die. But if you, through the Spirit, put to death+ the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14 For all+ who are led by the Spirit of God are the children+ of God. 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption through whom we cry out: Abba Father. 16 The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. 17 If we are children, then we are also heirs: Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed+ we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified together. 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 the earnest expectation of the creation+ waits for the manifestation of the children+ of God. 20 For the creation+ was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who has subjected it in hope. 21 Because the creation+ itself will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors+ in pain together until now. 23 Not only they, but we ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are being saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what anyone already sees, why would they still+ hope for it? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, then with patience we wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses+. For we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit intercedes for us with groanings more profound+ than words. 27 He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Matthew 6:33 29 For whom He did foreknow, He also predestined~ to be conformed to the image of His Son so that He might be the firstborn among many others+. 30 Moreover those whom He predestined~, He also called. Those whom He called, He also justified. And those whom He justified, He also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He did not spare His own Son, but gave+ Him up for us all. How shall He not with Him also freely give all things to us? 33 Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect~? It is God who justifies. 34 Who condemns us? It is Christ who died, and more important is risen again, who is at the right hand of God and who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall 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. Psalm 44:22 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded 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 will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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