Chapter 8 - NRSVupdate edition (2021) Paul's Letter to Roman Christians

Romans chapter 8, verses 1-17, 26-27

Therefore there is now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For

the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus

has set you free from the law of sin and

of death.  For God has done what the law,

weakened by the flesh, could not do: by

sending his own Son in the likeness of

sinful flesh and to deal with sin (as a sin

offering), he condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the just requirement of the law

might be fulfilled in us, who walk not 

according to the flesh but according to

the Spirit.  For those who live according

to the flesh set their minds on the things

of the flesh, but those who live according

to the Spirit set their minds on the things

of the Spirit.  To set the mind on the 

flesh is death, but to set the mind on

the Spirit is life and peace.  For this 

reason the mind that is set on the flesh

is hostile to God; it does not submit to

God's law -- indeed, it cannot and those

who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh; you

are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of

God dwells in you.  Anyone who does 

not have the Spirit of Christ does not

belong to him.  But if Christ is in you,

then the body is dead because of sin,

but the Spirit is life because of

righteousness.  If the Spirit of him

who raised Christ Jesus from the dead

will give to your mortal bodies also

through his Spirit that dwells in you.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are

obligated, not to the flesh, to live

according to the flesh -- 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.

For all who are led by the Spirit

of God are children of God. For 

you did not receive a spirit of slavery

to fall back into fear, but you received

a spirit of adoption.  When we cry, 

"Abba (Aramaic word for father)!" it is

that very Spirit bearing witness with

our spirit that we are children of God, &

if children, then heirs, heirs

of God & joint heirs with Christ,

we in fact suffer with him so

that we may also be glorified with

him. Likewise the Spirit 

helps us in our 

weakness, for we do 

not know how to pray 

as we ought,  but the 

very Spirit intercedes 

with groanings too deep 

for words. God, who searches hearts,

knows what is the mind of the Spirit, 

intercedes for the saints

according to the will of God.