CHAPTER VI.
THOSE IN CHRIST NOT SUBJECT TO CONDEMNATION, NOR TO THE FLESH, BUT RULED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, ETC.
1 8:1THERE is no condemnation therefore to those in Christ Jesus; 8:2for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death. 8:3For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh, 8:4that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 8:5For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit; 8:6for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace. 8:7Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be. 8:8And they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his. 8:10But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. 8:11And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.
2 8:12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live. 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. 8:15For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. 8:16The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God. 8:17And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
3 8:18For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us. 8:19For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God. 8:20For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope 8:21that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. 8:22For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now; 8:23and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies. 8:24For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees? 8:25but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.
4 8:26And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable; 8:27and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints. 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; 8:30and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.
5 8:31What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 8:32He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies; 8:34who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us? 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. 8:37But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us. 8:38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.