Romans 8:1-27

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,

2because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

3For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,

4in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

5For those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their minds set on the things of the Spirit.

6Now the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.

7The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.

8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

9You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

10Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.

12So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

13because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

14For all those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

16The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

17and if children, also heirs  — heirs of God and coheirs with Christ — if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

19For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.

20For the creation was subjected to futility  — not willingly, but because of him who subjected it  — in the hope

21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

23Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits  — we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

24Now in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

25Now if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

26In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.