New Revised Standard Version updated
edition, published by NCCC-USA in 2021.
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 and if children, then heirs of
God and joint heirs with Christ,
if we in fact, suffer with him so that
we may also be glorified with him.
I (Paul) consider that the sufferings
of this present time are not worth
comparing to the glory about to be
revealed to us. For the creation waits
with eager longing for the revealing
of the children of God, for the creation
was subjected to futility, not of its
own will, but by the will of the one
who subjected it, in hope that the
creation itself will be set free from
its enslavement to decay and will
obtain the freedom of the glory of
the children of God. We know that
the whole creation has been groaning
together as it suffers together the
pains of labor, and not only the creation,
but we ourselves who have the
first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly
while we wait for adoption, the
redemption of our bodies. For in
hope we were saved. Now hope that
is seen is not hope, for who hopes for
what one already sees? But if we
hope for what we do not see, we wait
for it with patience. Likewise, the Spirit
helps us in our weakness, for we do
not know how to pray as we ought,
but that very Spirit intercedes with
groanings too deep for words. and
for words. And God, who searches hearts,
knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
intercedes for the saints
according to the will of God. We know
that all things work together for good
for those who love God who are called
according to his purpose. For those whom
he foreknew he also predestined to be
confirmed to the image of his Son, in order
that he might be the firstborn within a large family. And those whom he predestined he also called,
and those whom he called he also justified,
and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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